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Jay Gladwell wrote on 11/28/2003, 8:29 PM
Many times the color for the titles is determined by the background. A drop shadow is always a good way to separate the titles from the background regardless.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/28/2003, 9:44 PM
I've done work for projector (infact, EVERYTHING I've done has been shown on projecter via DVD. :) ). Here's a couple tips.

1) Ambient Light + Projector = bad picture. You've gotta keep the light as low as posible in the room.

2) don't worry about safe zones. It's a projector! People will be ableto see everything!

3) Worry about using analog source. Those have the bad lines on the bottom. The safe zone normaly cuts them off.



And, just like VC said, use a title that will stand out from the background of he image. If it looks ok on your PC, with a projector it should look OK too. Just go check out the setup before you finish up so you can see how it looks.
JackW wrote on 11/29/2003, 2:16 PM
Avoid saturated colors, especially red, white and yellow, regardless of the bg color. We recently dropped a series of PowerPoint stills onto the timeline -- photos with bright yellow "frames" around -- and got dizzy watching the yellow pulse when the project was output to tape. An off-yellow, kind of a light mustard color, with the drop shadow suggested above, works very well against a darker background. An unsaturated yellow against IBM blue works well, too.

Black on a gray background seems to work, too. Outlining some colors -- a form of shadowing, I guess -- helps to prevent flare. BTW, even as good as today's projectors can be, it's not a bad idea to avoid fonts with serifs, and keep the font size fairly large.