font recommendations for video/film

What do you define as "readable"? I mean, there are likely some suggestions out there, but it's really a matter of personal situation. You should have an external monitor to do tests.

well, depends.... it all depends on your project. different fonts give a different feeling.

stay away from thin fonts, such as light or extra light. they may be hard to read.

if you are doing subtitles, you might want to think of having a black backing behind your text, so it is easier to read....

This may be of use:

http://www.dvguru.com/2006/10/05/fonts-and-resources-to-spruce-up-your-film-or-d vd/

For lower thirds I use Helvetica Black Condensed. Pretty clean and readable.

Also Helvetica Bold Condensed works well, too.

Also be sure to drop shadow anything that you are overlaying on an image. But as I said, you really need an external monitor, if only a cheap one.

Arial Black is good for TV.That's what I usually use. And yes, definitely always use a drop shadow or background. Arial is good too. I try to stay away from any serif fonts. Also, as a general rule, I never use fonts smaller than 36.

Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

All great suggestions and if you can get away with white and a black drop shadow that's best.

Not all font will be white, but it is easily the most readable in most circumstances.

Now that is not to say that I've never used colored font, but it's almost always in a tacky car commercial in which some announcer is screaming bloody murder about the newest and greatest deals. In other words...deliberately tacky.

Hello Mike,

Adam Wilt put some useful thoughts here:
http://www.adamwilt.com/Tidbits.html

hope this helps

mish

The best (cheapest) way to run your Amiga would be to tell FCP to send playback to an external source, plug in your camera via FW (FCP would see this as the source), set it to VTR, then use the camera's outputs to go to the Amiga. You may need an adapter or two.

I've used Strayhorn Bold (from fonts.com) for years, and I still love it. It's a clean, sans serif font that is slightly condensed (giving you more characters per line), and it has more character than, say, Helvetica. It is clean at smaller point sizes and also looks very good on DVD sleeve labels. My absolute favorite font of all that I've used.