Importing live type to imovie

I am a newcommer to video editing and have gradually learnt how to use imovie. I have FCEHD but don't know how to use it yet. I was impressed with live type and made a short title sequence however when I render the sequence and import it into imovie the titles appear pixilated and low quality. I have tried importing it as a .mov and .dv and played around with project properties in live type. Can anyone help me

I have exported the movie both to iDVD and a DV video camera which I have played onto a tv but the titles still look pixilated when imported but perfectly crisp if I play the .mov file from livetype. Am I using the wrong project settings?? I have tried different ones but no good. I really want to use the live type titles but they don't look good in my movie. HELP!

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