My text looks bad!

I wonder if any one can help me on what is probably a really basic understanding of the programme. When ever I make text in live type and then put it into Final Cut Pro, it looks rubbish! Its week and faded and just looks terrible. Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.

big Horse,
You really can't judge the quality of your Live Type graphic is you are looking at it on your computer. Pleasse refer to the following:
Shane's Stock Answer #2:
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
DV footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.

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As was noted in your other thread, video is not simple. If you want simple, stay with iMovie. If you want control, well with great power comes great responsibility. And great responsibility requires continuous study.
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