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Maybe someone could help me.
I've been creating title bars in Motion to use for sermons. I simply place them at the bottom of the screen. Nothing fancy. When I export the file and place it in FCP, for some reason the Motion video seems to be blurry, and I can't figure out why. I save it as a lossless movie preset in the export window. here are my save settings.
In export options:
Video/Audio tab
VIDEO
Kind: Quicktime Movie
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Quality: 100%
Start Number: 0 (Greyed out)
AUDIO
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz (Files don't have sound, so it doesn't matter)
OUTPUT TAB
Resolution: Full 720x486
Color: color + alpha
frame rate: 29.97
In my preferences, under the output tab, it reads:
ANTIALIASING: Best
Video Output: none (Update during playback and update dynamically during parameter change are not checked).
still in preferences, under the presets tab, I have my project preset as NTSC DV and in the export preset I don't have anything checked.
I realize it's a lot of information, but I'm hoping someone can tell me what setting is off so that my motion files will be crisp. Also, I just need to make a title bar that i can pull into FCP and drop on top of an existing file, but when I save the title bar it gives me a black background. If someone could clue me in on how to make the background transparent, it would really help.
Thanks all!
Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5 (3.1) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

First - don't export to get the file into FCP. Just save the Motion project, and import it into FCP and place it over your clip in the timeline on another track. That gives you 2 advantages - one, you don't have to render twice (from Motion, then FCP), so the quality is much better, and two, you get an alpha channel with it.
DV video does NOT support an alpha channel. You can never get a transparent background from anything you export using a DV or DV-related (such as DVCPRO or DVCPROHD) NTSC or PAL codec in QuickTime. This is not a Motion limitation, just the way DV works. If you ever need to export something from Motion and you want a transparent background, always use a codec that supports alpha channels, such as the Animation codec (which you can get by selecting the "Lossless+Alpha" export preset in Motion, no need to go into the options dialog to do this).

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