Odd Text Distortion in FCPX

Hey All,
Been receontly been having an issue with text effects being oddly distorted in Final Cut X. Happens randomly in all projects in different libraries. Sometimes if I delete the effect and re-do it, it fixes itself... sometimes if I shut down FCPX and restart it fixes itself... preference delete sometimes helps... but it always seems to come back, and not always in the same instance of the text effect.
Anyone else been seeing this issue? Here's a screenshot... notice how the text looks in the upper right corner of the viewer...

I just had this problem again, but for me, rendering solved the issue...
Do you try deleting all rendered files from event before render ?
EDIT :
no, you're right, rendering doesn't totally solve this problem...
But i deleted all rendered files, then closed FCPX, then when i restarted, all was ok...
EDIT 2 :
actually, no, it wasn't
so then i deleted rendered files, closed, restarted, rendered the text, and now it's ok...
But anway, it would be more interesting to find the origin of the problem, than random procedure to avoid it.
I'm surprised not more people have this problem...

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