John K Wrote:
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> I don't think the basic text tool options have
> changed since v1.0. Rather than imrove them, Apple
> has thrown in other apps or plugins (Livetype,
> Motion, Boris) that force us to round-trip just to
> get the right typeface. I might do my titles in
> those others apps, or even Photoshop+AE, but it's
> so frustrating that I can't even make a quick
> lower-third in FCP with say, Franklin Gothic -
> Medium.
>
> I do a lot of graphic design in other programs
> where I have full access to every loaded font on
> my system and all of it's weights (plain, medium,
> bold, italic, extra bold, etc.). FCP has always
> had crappy font support expecially with Postscript
> fonts; if I try to use one I often get the first
> font in the family -- which is usually an italic
> face -- and no access to the rest of the font
> weights. The "Style" drop-down is useless, it
> simply adds thickness to create a bold or slants
> text to make it italic, not the "true" versions in
> the font.
>
> ALL of the other Studio video apps (DVDSP, Motion,
> LT) have complete font controls and even the most
> basic OSX app like TextEdit has a nice font
> palette built-in. FCP's text tool seems like a
> fossil from a previous era...
I second that... allthought he lower third tool i s ahndy for doing lower thirds...
the font management is a night mare... we have 1 machine, a g5 with fcp5 and
its locked onto one font permanently....Weve trashed prefs, re installed. disabled the font, trashed the font,,, no matter what it won t move off that one font...and it only happens on the basic text function.