Dvd studio pro 4 font panel

dvd studio pro 4 i cant get my font panel to come up

I have this great new font - Viagra Bold, any my font panel comes up every time now, and stays up. I can send you about 5000 emails about it if you are interested...
But seriously, if Apple-T isn't opening the panel, try trashing the prefs. If that doesn't do it, there may be a corrupt font preventing it from opening. This system font panel is shared by many other apps, such as text edit, so you might see if it opens there before you start turning fonts on and off in Font Book.
Hope this helps -
Max

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Evren Aydogdu
Nov 23, 2012 9:37 AM
Whenever I click on Font Panel button inside Preferences to change subtitle fonts, the wheel starts turning for a while until DVD SP shuts itself. It's the same with Menu Button and Text Fonts. There's no trouble with changing any other preferences though. Deleting DVD SP with all the preferences etc. and reinstalling it did not help either.
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mkubam
Re: DVD Studio Pro quits unexpectedly
Nov 27, 2012 5:07 AM (in response to Evren Aydogdu)
Maybe my story will help You...
just after upgrade to Snow Leopard (new disk for system, users, settings and apps transferred from old system) DVD SP quits when i tryied to choose for example another location for my build.
None of these standard task helped:
repair permissions
restart
new user
delete preferences
reinstall DVDSP...
And below is what has helped:
1. Download ProKitUpdate7.0
2. Download newest Pacifist
3. Open package ProKitUpdate7.0 with Pacifist
4. Install package ProKitUpdate7.0 with administrator privileges with reaplace option enabled for all.
5. Restart Mac
Now DVDSPro works as usual.
Evren Aydogdu
Re: DVD Studio Pro quits unexpectedly
Dec 13, 2012 12:56 AM (in response to mkubam)
Thank you very much for your help and apologies for my late reply, I've been quite busy recently.
The computer I'm using is newly bought iMac with OS X 10.8.2. A newer version of ProKitUpdate was already on my computer when I tried ProKitUpdate 7.0. Your solution doesn't seem to apply to mine but thank you for your kindness.
But I didn't give up and deleted Final Cut Studio 3 completely with FCS Remover, did the verify and repair thing in safe boot mode and reinstalled FS3 again. It's still the same.
I don't think there is anything I left out after reading all the web pages, searching all forums. If it doesn't get interfered by other installed programmes such as After Effects CS5.5 or Photoshop CS5.1, which I don't know how to find out, then it is the compatibility problem. I can't think of anything else. And in this case it was a big mistake buying the newest technology computer as I'm not willing to try out Final Cut Pro X and learn another DVD authoring programme.

Evren Aydogdu wrote:
Whenever I click on Font Panel button inside Preferences to change subtitle fonts, the wheel starts turning for a while until DVD SP shuts itself. It's the same with Menu Button and Text Fonts. There's no trouble with changing any other preferences though. Deleting DVD SP with all the preferences etc. and reinstalling it did not help either.
If you have a font problem, this tip may help.
And in this case it was a big mistake buying the newest technology computer as I'm not willing to try out Final Cut Pro X and learn another DVD authoring programme.
I would be optimistic that this will get sorted out OK. Many people are successfully running FCS3 on ML.
Russ

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Converting your video to SD
Getting the .scc file to play nice
1st problem
I would export your HD sequence(self contained not QT conversion).
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It shouldn't be that size if you are making a SD DVD Menu. If you have later versions of Photoshop start a new blank project with pixel aspect ratio on for what you are doing (NTSC 4:3, NTSC 16 x 9 ) etc.
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