Adobe Photoshop and making a DVD

[Lileman]

You know how Kill Bill has chapters that introduce the next series of footage, well im doing the same. So basically i have a black screen and text in adobe photoshop 6. What should i save the image as. Currently im saving it as an adobe photoshop image. Then opening it in Adobe Premier Pro. The text does not look as clear and sharp as i want it. Any help?

[edDV]

You know how Kill Bill has chapters that introduce the next series of footage, well im doing the same. So basically i have a black screen and text in adobe photoshop 6. What should i save the image as. Currently im saving it as an adobe photoshop image. Then opening it in Adobe Premier Pro. The text does not look as clear and sharp as i want it. Any help?

Are you following TV text practice? That is a Google hint.

[Scorpion King]

If you are in NTSC land then start by creating a 720x480 pixels new file in photoshop with at least 100dpi resolution or more. Add the text and whatever you want then save it as either a PSD file or TIFF uncompressed file.

When you encode the final menu video to mpeg2 use enough bitrate to retain the quality you want. Lowering the bitrate at encoding time will make text suffer in quality - big time.

A high quality high dpi image of the proper framesize displays a lot better than a low quality poorly resized low dpi image. Expecially if there is text involved. lol

Good luck.