FCP doesn't render Livetype glow effect.

I've created a neon-like glow effect on a title in Livetype. I've imported the project and a .mov into FCP. When I open the file in the browser, I can still see the effect. But as soon as FCP renders it, the glow effect disappears! I've tried changing the render settings to RGB and high precision YUV and it still doen't work. I've also tried exporting this tilte with different settings from Livetype. But the effect is always visible in the viewer and not in the sequence.
Does anyone know what's going on?
Thanks in advance.

As a footnote, I'll add that once I applied some of the titles I created with no background to the image backgrounds on my timeline, the glow effect didn't look right either. So I went back to Livetype and imported the "background movies" I exported from FCP and placed them under the titles in Livetype. This way the glow effect looked just right once I saved it in Livetype and rendered it inside FCP!
So, I guess the workflow was my major mistake...

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