Making text look beautiful

Hi. I have created in FCP and Livetype, a great opening animated sequence for a DVD SP project I'm working on.
At its native dimensions and codec (1024 x 576 PAL Animation) it looks great. But run it through compressor on the MPEG2 for DVD 90min best quality setting and it looks scaggy. Considering it will be the background movie to my main menu screen, it doesn't look good.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

I'm not at my FCS machine today, sorry, can't look it up for you at the moment, but I'm sure there's a table of valid frame dimensions in the DVDSP manual or in the online help system.
Any scaling you do in the MPEG2 encode is going to impact your final image tremendously unless you know how to maximize all of the settings and variables.
(I pretend none of the adjustments exist.)
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devongovett wrote:
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