Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 461)

The Mac OS X Fonts window opens.
2 If you’re making changes to existing text, select the text in the Subtitle Editor by dragging
across it.
3 In the Fonts window, select the font family and the typeface style to use. The list of
available fonts and styles is based on fonts currently installed on your system.
4 Either select a size in the Size column (use the slider to scroll through the list) or select
the existing size and enter the new value, then press the Return key.
Note: If you open a DVD Studio Pro project that uses a font that is not on the computer
you are opening it on (either because the font was deleted or the project was created
on a different computer), any items using the missing font have a different font substituted
with no warning.
To help make the font list manageable, you can assign fonts to collections, creating
groupings of similar fonts. This makes it easy to get to a specific font type, such as script
or serif. For more information, see Mac OS X Help.
Setting the Subtitle Color
You can set the colors that subtitles are displayed in. As you type text into a subtitle, you
are actually creating an overlay graphic, exactly the same as an overlay graphic you might
create with a graphics application. As with an advanced overlay, a subtitle contains four
colors that you map to the actual colors that are displayed in the finished title. Each color
also has a transparency setting. For subtitles, however, the function of each of the four
colors is fixed: Color 1 is the text, color 2 is the first text outline, color 3 is the second text
outline, and color 4 is the text background.
You usually set the opacity of color 4 (the text background) to 0—other opacity settings
apply color 4 over the entire picture (except where the text is). Color 2 (text outline 1)
and color 3 (text outline 2) let you apply a text border to help improve the contrast with
the video underneath the subtitle. For example, you could set the text to be white and
the outlines to be black, making it easy to read the text over light or dark video content.
461 Chapter 19 Creating Subtitles