Sequence Settings - LiveType & FCP for widescreen

I am creating a project using text clips created in Live Type to be played on widescreen monitors (I assume they are HD but am not positive). Clips are only white moving type on black background. no images.
What would be the best setting to use for project in Live Type? I know I have to use the same sequence setting in FCP. I have tried a few different things and don't seem to get it right. (having to render in fcp when I edit clip) I did watch the video on "Editing non-standard FCP codecs. But I want to start with my LT clips being optimized for the final output.
Thanks.

There are presets for livetpe and for fcp that are 16:9.... some are HD, some are not... but in any event you should be using the same in each program. Also you'll have to render any livetype animated title in FCP... even if the sequence settings match. OR you can export a QT movie of the livetype animation and import it into FCP for the edit, then the "render" will have been done via the export of the QT movie. The best would be uncompressed HD, however this would take some very serious hard drive speeds (think fibre channel array) to play the files back with.
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