Intermittent Garbage Behind Text Imported to FCP

Hi - I'm animating some text with the wave behavior in Motion, adding a drop shadow and importing the Motion file into FCP. I'm getting some black areas behind the text that are not getting masked out in FCP.
After searching the subject I changed the alpha in FCP from straight to black and it has not solved the problem.
The text looks great for a majority of the time but every so often a few frames have a garbled black rectangle behind them.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Craig

First, make sure that all render types under the Sequence->Render menus have a check mark beside them - and then render the Sequence. Next, make sure the images aren't too large for your Sequence. If you plan to push (zoom) in to the images, they probably shouldn't be more than twice the pixel dimensions of the Sequence you're working in. If the images are too large, you'll see 'mosquito' noise or other artifacts in the image on a TV monitor. Resize them in Photoshop or Preview before importing them into your FCP project.
Also note that 300 pixels per inch isn't the an accurate measurement term - I think you mean dots per inch (DPI) which has absolutely no bearing on image quality in video/television. It is a measurement used in the print world. A 1200 x 800 pixel image at 1200 DPI will look exactly the same as that same 1200 x 800 image at 72 DPI on a television monitor.
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