Pixelated Fonts - Help

I've been reading through the threads here on text in DVSP and how it's better to import PS for menus. I did a test and it's not looking any better to me. In fact when I simulate it the fonts in DVSP itself looks better. Maybe I'm not creating the layers in PS correctly? I've watched a few demos online. I'm creating DVDs for an event and the buttons and text has to look good. Any suggestions? Would it be better to create something in FC? I don't even know if that's possible. Help..thanks.

Couple of things in general - you need to make sure that you are creating the proper size menus in Photoshop (you can start with one of the presets, such as DV or DV Widescreen). Make sure to use larger sans-serif fonts and all layers and effects should be rasterized. 20pt plus is a good idea, and sometimes things like drop shadows helps. (Depends) Also tiffs or picts and not jpegs.
I have been using Motion alot more for layouts and does a nice job. Even if the background is not a "video" background, using a movie can help - make it 30 seconds or so. Export using an uncompressed codec then encode in Compressor.

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I am trying to put sound fonts into a playable format in garageband. I followed all of the instructions on the sound font help page for Garageband, but I still cannot play the sounds, or get them to show up. Any suggestions?

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unreadable.
I already put the size to 8 ou 16,
no decimals in the X and Y position,
embeded the font,
tried all the anti alias modes,
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Pedromvpg wrote:
> I'm using pixel fonts for the first time and I cant seem
to make them work
> properly. the words are still unfocused and unreadable.
> I already put the size to 8 ou 16,
> no decimals in the X and Y position,
> embeded the font,
> tried all the anti alias modes,
>
> nothing seems to work and the words look like blurs
>
> Am I missing a step, or doing something wrong?
>
> best regards
under the font properties, set it to Bitmap and not Anti
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