Smooth Scrolling Credits for FCP !#$#

To start, I am creating scrolling credits from scratch in Motion 2 to import into my NTSC-DV FCP5 session.
I had accomplished beautiful scrolling credits in Motion to FCP about 6 months ago and cannot for the life of me produce good looking scrolling credits again! I have gone through this forum and there are about 100 different ideas out there...export using the animation codec with "render fields" selected, simply import the Motion session into FCP and render it, use large fonts, use the "scroll up" behavior, use keyframing... I have even tried After Effects which was WAY easier than Motion but produced similar fluttering effects.
Any way I try to do it, the scrolling text always comes out in FCP after rendering (and viewing on an external monitor) with the all too common jagged scroll...like the letters are fluttering in between fields as they scroll up..
My latest atempt in Motion to create this scrolling text consists of this:
1) Open an NTSCDV session in Motion
2) Using the text tool I write in my credits in the "Inspector" under the "text" tab
3) I then appply the "scroll up" behavior to the text from the "Add Behavior/Text Animation" dropdown menu at the top of the screen.
4) The record light below the canvas is on, I goto the newly added "Scroll Up" behavior in the "Inspector" under the "Behaviors" tab and there is a keyframe already added at the beginning of the "Scroll Up" layer in the timeline. I move the "Position Offset" slider down so the beginning (top) of the text is right below the bottom of the screen.
5) I then move to the end of the "Scroll Up" layer in the timeline (which is 30 seconds long BTW), add another keyframe in the "Scroll Up" layer and slide the "Position Offset" slider so that my text has just disappeared at the top of my screen.
6) I drag the cursor through the 30 second roll in the timeline verifying that it scrolls up the way I want.
7) I ensure the project properties are set correctly before I save. This includes making sure the field order is set to "Lower" in the "General" tab, and in the "Render Settings" tab making sure the output antialiasing method is set to "Best" and that "Use dithering" IS checked. In the Motion Blur setting the samples are set to "8" and the shutter angle is set to 360.
8) I then save the project, import the project file into my FCP NTSCDV session, drag it to the timeline, render it, and playback to an external monitor.
Possible Problems:
1) I am thinking that maybe the text is scrolling up too slow and it is impossible to get clean text without the jagged/fluttering effect. As when I shorten the scroll to 20 seconds there is less of a fluttering effect (but it is impossible to read the text as it is scrolling up so fast)
2) There is some "Project Property" setting in Motion that I have messed up.
3) I should not be using the scroll up feature with keyframing but perhaps just keyframing the actual text itself to move up? (although I have tried this with worse results)
I have wasted hours trying different routes, reading the manual, searching this forum, to no avail. Who has the magic recipe I am looking for? Please help.
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Bryan,
I attempted to adjust the white level, the field order, but don't think ever got to messing around with FCP's processing settings...I am actually encoding the film right now as I was under the gun and actually found the "scroll" plugin in FCP to work just as good if not better than Motion without any tweaking so had to roll wth that. I will attempt to tweak the Motion file again though as I cannot bear sub-par credits. Will also email you the Motion file if you don't mind.

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