Pixelated Font out of After Effects and in the FCP timeline

I've posted this questions before, but I'm still having trouble.  I create an animation is After Effects that is composed of a layer Photoshop file.  Looks fine in AE and when I play the exported movie on my desktop. See below.
I put it on the timeline in Final Cut and Voila! this:
The font pixelates.  In addition, I'm getting pixelated font in my layered photoshop files in my timeline.  This is an issue I cannot recall having in the past.
I was advised on my last post for this issue not to use the DV-NTSC codec to export from After Effect but no matter what I use I get the pixelation once I put it in the Final Cut timeline.  So is is possible that the issue lies with something in my layered Photoshop file?  This is ultimately going to play on a 12 foot high screen so there no hiding even a minor lack of quality.  Help!
My After Effects is version 6.0
Thanks for anything you can do!

What are the properties of the clip from Ae?
These are my export choices and I've tried DV-NTSC which matches the final cut settings and under advice from this forum the Uncompressed 10-bit and H.264.  Same pixelated font but only in the FCP timelime.  Plays fine in Quicktime on the deskstop with no pixelation on the font
What are your Sequence settings in FCP?
DV-NTSC
Did you render the clip on the FCP Timeline?
Yes, didn't make a difference
The Final Cut Pro canvas shows you a low res proxy. That conserves resources and should not be what you use to determine quality. Export the clip and view it in QuickTime Player 7--Play beautifully....no crappy font.
(not QT X). Make sure QT7 is set to use Hi Quality Playback (in the Preferences dialog). Better yet, view it on a TV set.
Views on the TV as pixelated.
The typeface that you are using. While elegant and pretty, it is very unsuitable for television--Yes, absolutely agree, but it's a client produced photoshop file that matches the invitations for the Gala.  They may allow me to change the font to something close, but even those fonts would probably create the same problem.
Considering using text font in Final Cut to solve the issue, but I just don't want to "say Uncle" just yet.  I would like to figure out the problem.  I feel like I exist in a constant learning curve...just commentary of life in today's world there.
Once again, any suggestions would be appreciated.  Plus I don't understand why my photoshop files look terrible in the timeline as well.  I just haven't had that problem before.

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