Re: horrid quality compared to FCP basic text?

Well, this monster has raised it's ugly head again. I am not sure what you mean by changing alpha type to black. LT uses the animation codec which uses a 256 shade gray scale to produce its alpha channel. I have posted a copy of Mark's project up a few posts) and his screenshot is ragged whereas mine (with no changes) is quite elegant.

I have a difficulty in working through this problem because I can't duplicate it. I just finished two features and used LT in titling both of them. Both were NTSC HD projects and have played on theater screens, as well as on the IFC channel. and the titles were pristine. I make sure that HD projects are set to upper and SD projects are set to lower and I make sure that my render is set to normal and not draft. (These are all in the project settings).

If you are trying to do a crawl or roll, I strongly recommend that you use Boris FX in FCP and LT does not handle this well.

You might consider doing the title wrk in Motion if you can't get the results you want in LT.

Sjon