Change leading in percentage of font size in premiere pro

Not that it is much help to you, but I, like many editors, eyeball the leading in PPro. Sometimes, I will use a screenshot from official brand guidelines to make sure it matches as close as possible. But, since we're in the business of moving images, pixel peepers don't get a lot of time to know that it is not 100% correct...

I agree with you that this behavior should be consistent with the other design apps from Adobe.

Perhaps posting this as an idea for development will alert the engineers that consistency throughout the Adobe suite would be a good thing. For one, I upvoted your post. The more people who agree do this, the more attention this post gets.

I've had some lengthy discussions with a couple of the engineers on leading and kerning in Premiere. For some reason, when they designed the font workings of Premiere, they decided that editors didn't want nor need to use the same tools as those odd designer types (that last nearly a direct quote ... sigh). So they built a specially designed set of font behaviors that would be more natural, wanted, and intuitive for editors.

And didn't put up any real in-depth explanations anywhere. And if you think leading is a problem, well ... kerning is a lot worse.

And I've yet to find anyone who thinks their design is more natural, wanted, and more intuitive. I wish I had a helpful answer, but Sami has about the only sensible way to approach it. It's as good as you're going to get, I think.

Neil

Think of it like this, in Premiere a Leading of 0 is the font size.

So if your font is 50 and you want the leading to be 125% of the font size, the actual value you want to calculate is 25% of the font size, because 0 is 100%.

50x0.25=12.5 is the leading you're looking for.

Hope this makes sense.