Making titles in Photoshop

1. Is .Tiff a good format or is there a reason to export as another format?
2. If I am working on a 720 x 480 project can I just make a canvas at this size in Photoshop and make a title in it and export the whole thing or should I crop it first before exporting from Photoshop?
Thanks.

Question 2 first: Photoshop has preset templates for typical video pixel dimensions in the File > New... menu. Choose one that fits your FCP Sequence Settings and paste your graphics into it.
If you have a logo that needs to be discreet, choose the template with a transparent background, it will composite automatically in FCP. Save as Tiff with the Preserve Transparency option checked to on.
Tiff is excellent for stills in FCP and my personal choice every time. PNG also works well.
Your graphics must always be in RGB color space. CMYK and Grayscale will cause "Out of Memory" errors.

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Hello,
There are times I want to create titles in photoshop or fireworks and import into iMovie.
When I do them @ 640x480, they come in all messed up.
They look fine on QT Pro.
What is the best way to do this for iMovieHD 6?
Is there a template that anyone can refer me to?
Thanks, Richard

I guess you get the best quality if you compose the titles in the 720x480 resolution they end up with anyway (you are using NTSC, right?). Then there will ne NO scaling that can distort the image.
So make a 720x480 Photoshop document. You can set Photoshop to use 4320/4739 ~0.912 pixel aspect ratio so you see the correct dimensions.
http://www.iki.fi/znark/video/conversion/
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http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#slideshow
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6bugs.html#stills
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