Gamma Shifts and Text movement

I am rendering a project in Shake using 10-bit Uncompressed footage to the Animation codec because the shot will be imported into an Avid system. I am getting a gamma shift in the footage when I view back the material in Final Cut Pro. Will this happen on the Avid? I know you can choose RGB when importing footage into the Avid. I do not know if the **** is happening from the 10-bit to RGB conversion inside of Shake or when the Animation codec is transcoded back to 10-bit or both?
I also have a logo that I am placing inside of a television but it has very narrow lines in it and a slow aliasing seems to move through the logo during the shot like a wave. I am rendering out to 1080i. Could this be caused by the narrow lines of the logo? I am attempting to blur it a bit and make it bigger to try and fix it.
Thanks!

Tom,
working in 720 certainly worked except I'll now have to change all my graphics which were originated 1920 x 1080.
Is there no way I can work at hi res without these problems? I couldn't see a way of changing field prefs in sequence item prefs. It only lists filters, trame blending for speed and load sequence preset

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