Re: horrid quality compared to FCP basic text?

In FCP leave the alpha at straight. Also there is a big difference between HDV and HDTV (one is 1440 using an anamorphic pixel (1.3) and the other (HDTV) is 1920 using a square pixel). That might be some of the problem in this discussion. I work in HDTV which is full sized 1920 X1080. When working in HDV (a long GOP mpeg format) the pixels are squashed and when the picture is displayed at 1920, the pixels are stretched, which might make the edges somewhat jagged. HDTV is WYSIWYG. I stay as far away fromo HDV as possible. If your project is HDV, I would recommend upressing it to HDTV using your ProRes 422 codec (just set your sequence export to PreRes 422 at full size). This take it out of mpeg and makes each frame an "I" frame. This just might solve your problem.

As far as LT being bad at crawls and scrolls, I think the Boris is a lot faster. LT was designed to be a titling program, and at that it is quite good. As I said the titles are always pristine. One of my films - Before the Music Dies - is available on iTunes and you can see how well that came ot.

Sjon