Boris titles look bad

I'm working on FCP 6 and am having a hard time getting Boris titles to work properly. They look terrible before and after I render them. I tried using a different font in a new project but the same thing happened. The playback quality is set to high. I'm at a loss. Any ideas?

Thanks
amy

Give us complete details about what you're doing in Boris, font, size, color, edge, shadow. Also what format you're working in, and are you looking at the rendered output on a video monitor.

I'm working with mini-dv tapes, in easy setup DV NTSC - just trying to do basic titles, nothing fancy. Tried doing both moves and still titles. Started adding color to a title and when that turned out badly, I tried several times to do the plainest thing I could; no color, drop shadow, or moves. I tried new and older fonts such as Proxima Nova and Helvetica, Arial...etc - Sizes 36 - 24 - I tried creating a new title in Livetype and importing into my sequence, still looked terrible. Although it looked okay in Livetype. (this makes me think it's a display issue) But, no, they do not have an NTSC monitor to check my work (we will remedy that soon) Spoke to one of the company's tech guys who believes there might be something wrong with the fonts on the computer - perhaps they weren't installed properly - I don't know. It's a fairly new system. Perhaps we should reinstall the OS and FCP?

No, don't reinstall the OS and FCP.

If your sequence settings are set to DV-NTSC, then your titles will look terrible... change the sequence to uncompressed before your final output.

MONITOR PEOPLE MONITOR!

Without a shade of doubt, all confusion regarding bad quality graphics, text or effects is related to improper monitoring.

Hook up a broadcast monitor out of your DV deck and how does it look now?

As a workaround, you can set the Canvas to 100% precisely and that should at least show you a reasonable facsimile of your text quality.

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