Scrolling text is jumpy/pulsing when compressed

I'm making end credits using the scroll up text animation behavior in Motion 2.1.2. Whenever I compress it for DVD Studio Pro and insert it the text looks terrible. It is pulsing in and out and is hardly readable. I found a few other people who have had this problem, but no solutions that have helped.
I have done credits using the scrolling text in Final Cut without much problem, but for this project I need motion in order to use text of different sizes.
Here are my specs:
Project Properties - NTSC DV; 720x480; Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC D1/DV - 0.90; Field Order: Lower First (Even); Frame Rate: 29.97; Background color is black (0%)
Render Settings - Motion Blur Samples: 8; Shutter Angle: 360; Output Antialiasing Method: Best
I used Export using Compressor: DVD Best Quality 90 minutes 4:3; I tried using the Color+Alpha and just Color in the Output options. Premultiply alpha and Use field render are both checked. Use motion blur is not checked.
Most of the text is Geneva Regular 14 pt font. I have tried completely white as well as setting the RGB sliders all at 235 with no difference. I also tried using a black outline with no difference. The scroll up behavior has a rate of 52.
Please help! It took me forever to put these credits together and I don't want to start from scratch with another program. Making the text bigger helps a little bit but I would really like to keep it the same size for timing and format sake. However, I can't keep it like this because it looks terrible both on an Apple Cinema display and on a tv after burned to DVD.
Thanks!

My first guess would be the font itself. Geneva is a pretty thin font and it's not likely to look good interlaced and on a TV. Can you try a thicker font?
I'd also turn off Field Rendering. It looked much worse with it on than off. Keep Frame Blending though.
Andy

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Basically, I'm just moving the text box -20 pixels in the _x
position each
time the function is called (you can mask it if you'd like).
Once it determines that the inverse of the width of the text
in the textbox
is less than or equal to it's _x position, it resets the
textbox back to the
right edge of the play area.
To test, just make a dynamic, single line textbox named
horizontal_txt and
place it at 550 on the stage.
You could get more sophisticated and have an array of news
that it cycles
through, and have it pause if the mouse of over, etc. I'm
sure you've seen
those things before.
Anyway...let me know if you have any problems implementing.
- Chris

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Hello,
I have some scrolling text which I have added a 4 point garbage mask to, I want the text to fade at the top of the screen where it disappears, instead of how it disappears now, it goes from totally visable to 100% gone, and looks unprofessional.
To clarify a little bit more : There is an image at the top of the screen, so I want the
text to scroll from the bottom of the screen, to the top of the screen, and fade away just as it almost hits the bottom of the image.
Thanks for any advice on how to adjust this
Dave.

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