Fuzzy titles - vector or bitmap?

I was searching the forums reading many posts about titling problems when I came across this...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3647315&#3647315
In the thread Jerry Hoffmann mentions that as long as you don't use motion to move 3D titles around they remain as vector graphics. Maybe I'm missing something here but I work in the printing industry and know a pixel from a vector. When I place a 3D title over a clip and enlarge the view in the viewer I can clearly see that it is soft and made up of pixels. Upon rendering the softness becomes even more pronounced. The title are clearly no longer vectors.
Am I misunderstanding Jerry or am I still doing something wrong?
Thanks all,
Mike Pulcinella

You're just enlarging the display in the Viewer and not affecting the image output. The viewer itself is pixel based and not a vector display. Enlarging the viewer is no way analogous to enlarging an image inside a vector graphics application like Illustrator. If you enlarge the Title 3D using the Controls tab to scale it you will see a vector response to the scaling process.
Once they are rendered they are rendered into DV CCIR601 pixels or whatever format you're working in, which is why you must animate using the Controls tab rather than the Motion tab of the Viewer.

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