I'm making title cards, need suggestions re: fonts, etc.

h'lo all,
after getting (very) frustrated with iMHD6 title durations, I realized I could make my own white-on-black title cards in PhotoShop by creating a white typ/black background jpeg, which I could drag in to iMHD6, then set whatever length I chose. It works pretty well, except that fonts that look great in PhotoShop get pretty "soft" when they come in to iMHD6. I've been trying the following:
320 x 240, 150ppi
Times New Roman, 10 point
save as jpeg, max quality.
Any suggestions on changing the font, size, resolution, etc?
many thanks

Bill Myers wrote:
.. 320 x 240, 150ppi
Times New Roman, 10 point..
.. which is about a quarter of the res, NTSC offers.. so iM 'blows-up' your painting and esp. the serifs of your font get blurry .. addtional increased by the high contrats of plain b/w.
720x480 (dpi is of no use for video, doesn't matter 300 or 5...) as res - if your project is 'Standard' not HiDef or widescreen..
avoid, if you use serif fonts, too small font size.. 30-40 pix is perhaps a benchmark => otherwise the tiny serifs at the 'feed' of a typo gets 'sub pixel' = flimmer in video..

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