Text Resolution

Hi, I'm new to Final Cut Express, moving up from iMovie. I have one major issue that is common to both iMovie and Final Cut, so I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong.
When I create a nice title or other text with Live Type, it looks excellent, nice and crisp. As soon as I put it in Final Cut, it looks like pixelated crap. Why? I see I can change the resolution in Live Type, but that makes the dimensions all screwy.
Why doesn't my text look as good in the movie as it does when I first create it? What am I doing wrong?

Tom,
Thanks for your reply. What is most odd about this situation is that I actually copied and pasted some copy from one block of text into another part of the timeline---then changed the copy. Everything else remained the same, but the new copy looked terrible. Weird!
What I am doing now is creating titles in LiveType and exporting as Quicktime movies, which is how they taught me at the Apple Store, and everything looks fine. I guess the lesson for me is that using the Text tool doesn't always produce the results I want to see.
Thanks again and all the best,
Bruce

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