Type fuzzy when brought into FCE

I have searched through many many questions and responses about the "fuzzy/blurry" type syndrome of LT going into FC/FCE. I have tried MANY MANY of the suggestions and I still get the fuzzy type.
I really hate to bother you folks but can anyone get me straight on this?
My usual practice:
Create title w/effects
Save file
Render file (In preferences I've tried all kinds of various settings. CCIR 601NTSC40:27, NTSC 4:3/Upper, Lower filed dom./reduced opacity type/different font styles, colors)
I export LTfile
I open FCE and import that movie file
I play within FCE and even after I export the final FCE to aQT movie and then to iDVD, the titling looks fuzzy on tv.
Thanks for any help. Signed, VERY FRUSTATED.

The alpha channel defines your area of transparency, it's what allows your graphic/image to exist as a cut-out as opposed to an element existing with a background.
The reason I mention Live Type graphics are all rendered in animation with million+ is so you know that you can just render them in its default render mode and don't have to change quicktime setting.
Sometimes when people export and change the QT setting they don't change it to the highest setting and end up creating a graphic with a lower quality than the one they originally created. So for instance if you rendered a movie and then decided to export the movie, you would want to change the compression Type to Animation and the Compressor Quality to Best. Folks who don't do this can create graphics that are fuzzy.
I'm not sure if FCE can use the .ipr files that Live Type creates but if so that's the best way to get your graphics from LT. Simply create them in LT save them and import them into your FCE project.

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First, I've read so many forum comments on this I'm blue in the face, but i've still not found a solution. I've spent the better part of a week reading on this issue and still no joy, so please don't ask me to search - I've done that. To set up my issue...
I have a brand new Canon Vixia HF-R32 camcorder. I shot video in ACVHD (MXP) onto the camera's internal memory. I'm using Final Cut Exoress 4 on a MacBook running 10.7.4 I have a new external terabite HD set as scratch disk.
When I connect camera to computer to download clips things work to a point. I use Log and Transfer and my clips show up in the window. I can set in and out points. I can change the clip name, add scene notes, etc. etc. BUT - when I click the "Add to Que" the problem occurs. The video begins to 'process' as indicated by the little spinning status wheel. However - nothing ever shows in the transfer bar that should show the progress being made in the transfer. When the spinning wheel stops and I click on the clip I get a red circle with exclamation point and the message "Error: No Data."
YES - I have checked preferences under the gear at top of the L&T window and YES my settings are for All formats, All rates, Apple Intermediate Codec and the audio is set to Plain. That much I gleaned from other posts in various forums, but that does nothing to solve my issue. I've also checkedunder Easy Set Up and have Apple Intermediate set there.
Tonight I spent time on phone with friend who has same type (but Panasonic) camera and same software. We compared many, many settings and all seemed to be set the same. He can import video, I cannot. When he either drags and drops clips from the L&T window or uses the "add to que" button, the status wheel spins, the transfer bar moves and when complete his clip shows up in the original FCE window for editing. Mine does not.
the software recognizes my camera, the clips are either loaded or accessed by the software, I can play the clips in the FCE viewer to set in and out points. Video and audio there is fine, but when I add to que it all falls apart.
I've already bought two video format softwares to change the MTS files to something else but that's not the route I want - I don't want to lose all the resolution. So amyone have any ideas how to get ACVHD files into FCE??? I'm about to shoot either the camera or me to put one of us out of our misery! This can't be that complicated as the ACVHD is a hugely common format.
Any help most kindly appreciated

Have you verified that your copy of FCE has been updated to 4.0.1?
MtD

Capturing NTSC into FCE with a PAL-Camcorder?

Hi. I have mini-dv cassettes with videos in ntsc format.
Is it possible to capture these videos using my PAL mini-dv camcorder via firewire to fce hd3.5?
It sounds weird bec generally you cant use a PAL mini-dv camcorder to play a mini-dv in NTSC format. I went to a video store to ask for an advice and I was told that it didnt matter if I used a PAL mini-dv camcorder to capture an NTSC format via firewire which is digital. All I need is to put the right format setting in the editing software. But I got confused when I got another advice from another video store where I was told that both the camcorder and the edit software should be able to handle the NTSC format. I know fce hd3.5 can handle both NTSC and PAL format in mini-dv.
I hope you can help me solve my problem. Thanks in advance.

Thanks Al for giving your thought on this.
As you suggested, I need a video standard converstion system? The video standard will stay as NTSC in the meantime. I only see the use of this standard conversion system when I need to edit both PAL and NTSC videos at thesame time, where I need to convert either one of the video standards into the other one so that as you said fce knows what type of footage it will deal with.
This leads me to think that the only way I can capture my NTSC videos into fce hd3.5 is to use an NTSC camcorder as well. That's exactly my problem bec in Germany they only sell PAL minidv cams unless you want to get Sony HVR-Z1U which is able to handle both NTSC and PAL system. That's expensive for me.
Am I making sense here???

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