Why Blurry Title?

Added scrolling credits at end of short movie, but the font is blurry. Rolling title added near the start of movie is fine, looks like the same font and everything, but end credits are blurred. ? :-/

The text is in the artwork – so it is probably rasterized as you say. I cannot select the blurry text in the artwork in FrameMaker or in the PDF.
Why would these things not be blurry when my former colleague made the PDF, but they are blurry for me?
Thanks,
Erin

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I have noticed recently that the titles in iMovie are blurry, I thought that when ill export the movie the titles will syncronize to the resolution of the movie, in my case 1080p but they didn't.
does anyone have a sloution to my problem?
cheers.

Our brain is programmed to naturally accept that if the object is static, it looks sharp. If an object is in motion however, it will look blurry.
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Blurry Title

Hi Everyone,
I am creating a simple title in LiveType, and have run into a problem. It is a simple white on black title, with the only effect being a fade in. When I make a render preview of the title, it looks good. I then render the real copy, and import it into Final Cut Express. Then it looks blurry. I have tried moving it the the desktop, playing it in the desktop, but it is still blurry. I have also tried making the same title with iMovie, and it still looks blurry. I am not sure what this is and why it is happening.
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ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
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Ann,
I think that I missed something in your commets. Please help me understand. On my workstation, I've got over 9K Fonts. These are in my C:\Fonts\PS_Fonts, \\TT_Fonts and \\OTF_Fonts folders. The only ones that show up in any program are the ones that are "installed" in my system. I cannot "test drive" any of the non-installed in any program, that I know of, except, of course, Extensis Suitcase.
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