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Captions not displaying correctly with Sinhala Fonts

  • May 21, 2021
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Please see attached image. Notice the Red arrows. As you can see words look fine in the Caption track, but on program monitor some letters are scrambled within the words. What's going on here? How can I fix this?   I tried several different Sinhala font types with the same results.

I'm using Premier v15.2 and Windows 10, and windows standard Sinhala Font:  Iskoola Pota

no such issues with ms word or powerpoint with the above font.

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Correct answer Stan Jones

Sorry that I am not clear on waht type of font that is, but I am going to assume it might be one of these. This is an undocumented option in the new (PR 2021) caption workflow.

 

See the correct answer from staff (Trent Happel via Kevin Monahan):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/srt-import-with-right-to-left-language-e-g-hebrew-arabic...

 

"Do you have South Asian and Middle Eastern set in your Caption Track Settings? Right-click on the Caption track header, choose Track Settings... and then under Styling Options > Text Engine, click button for South Asian and Middle Eastern. Then click Ok button."

 

Interestingly, I don't think you need to set the regular preferences to South Asian and Middle Eastern as long as you set the caption track. But when I set the regular preferences to that and created a new track, it set the caption track to the same.

 

Let us know if this helps (or not).

 

Stan

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 22, 2021

Sorry that I am not clear on waht type of font that is, but I am going to assume it might be one of these. This is an undocumented option in the new (PR 2021) caption workflow.

 

See the correct answer from staff (Trent Happel via Kevin Monahan):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/srt-import-with-right-to-left-language-e-g-hebrew-arabic...

 

"Do you have South Asian and Middle Eastern set in your Caption Track Settings? Right-click on the Caption track header, choose Track Settings... and then under Styling Options > Text Engine, click button for South Asian and Middle Eastern. Then click Ok button."

 

Interestingly, I don't think you need to set the regular preferences to South Asian and Middle Eastern as long as you set the caption track. But when I set the regular preferences to that and created a new track, it set the caption track to the same.

 

Let us know if this helps (or not).

 

Stan

Nal5C2AAuthor
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May 22, 2021

Nope, below settings did not work: edit/preferences/Graphics and Text engine to South Asian ok and restart.

Appreciate your effort Stan, thanks... After some research what I found out was, it was one of the specific type Unicode Fonts PR is having difficulty interpreting. I tried with True Type fonts and the problem resolved!!!

Info on Unicode font that does not work:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/iskoola-pota

 

 

Nal5C2AAuthor
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May 21, 2021

Just a note:  Microsoft Iskoola Pota font type is a Unicode Font,

but like I said, works just fine with MS Word and Powerpoint, but not with Premier.