Why does my rendered Live Type movie look bad

I created some lower thirds using Live Type, then I imported them into FCP. When I edit them onto my timeline it looks really bad (not sharp)...why?

njs21 wrote:
I did not realize the canvas shows a low res image. that is not too comforting though.
You're new, obviously. We all were at one time or another. Your Canvas is a small window inside the interface of your editing application running on a computer screen. You can think of it like the page preview function in Photoshop, it's an approximation; you won't really know what your page is going to look like till you print it. But with lots of experience, you begin to be able to predict what various filters and effects will look like on different types of paper stocks on different printers.
njs21 wrote:
When it is all done rendering and exporting it will be high res?
Maybe. Depends on how you've got your rendering settings sets set up. Generally, yes, if you read that part of the manual carefully and follow the steps. But you won't know till you've gone all the way to your output format and evaluated your work on your final media's display.
bogiesan

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