LIVE TYPE GRAPHICS COMING UP INTERLACED IN FCP 5

Hi there, Somebody Help!!!
I've got live type text that i'm exporting into FC5. When I put it on my time line it comes up blocky and interlaced. If I change my time line settinges to no fields it makes the live type text clear but then it adversely affects the footage in the time line.
My live type project settings are the same as my FC5 settings. I've tried either rendering out the LT text as a rendered movie or just doing the quick import as a live type file.
Does anybody please have any info, its driving me up the wall.
Cheers
G5 1.5Dual Mac OS X (10.4.1)

We see similar questions often so you could try scrolling down a few months to review past posts.
Our usual response is that you must view the final render on your target video output monitor. You cannot rely on the computer display for accurate pixel/field display since it is a low-rez and frame-only, progressive display.
There was a bug in an earlier release that had the field setting reversed so you can always try changing that, too.
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