Text pixelated

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

It is essential when attempting to monitor the QUALITY of images in FCP that you use an external NTSC VIDEO Monitor (or PAL, if that’s where you are).
Especially after you render…
the Canvas is never high-quality (by design) and should not be used to make determinations of image quality of clips or graphics.

Video Processing tab.
“Normal” is default for all Sequences.
Change this to “Best” and text should clean up.

[Teddyg]

I did not view it on an external monitor but exported it and viewed it on the computer monitor using Quicktime and found it was still pixelated.

[Arnie Schlissel]

That’s not the same. You mus see it on a video monitor, at video resolution in video color space.