Fonts in Various Scripts?

Report · Sep 30, 2022

Hi everybody, how come in Premiere the fonts can’t display characters in the same scripts as in Photoshop? For example, in PS you can write Cyrillic and Georgian script in Futura but in Premiere you just get squares where the letters should go?

Many thanks for your help,
Gareth

Report · Oct 01, 2022

Can anybody help with this? Thanks again.

Report · Oct 01, 2022

Just a shot in the dark, but no one else has piped up... you might check the format of the font(s) which may have some compatability issues with premiere. If you're on a mac, you might make sure that there are no issues with the fonts by using Font Book (which comes with the mac os) and select the font and "validate font" in the file menu. Don't know how you handle that on windows.... although google might point you in the right direction

Report · Oct 02, 2022

Thanks, Mgrenadier, I am on a Mac. I'll try “validate font” in Font Book, but why should it be any different in Premiere to Phototshop? Maybe the fonts come with Premiere and PS rather than being already on my compter. That might explain it. I don't know it's so weird and so weird that nobody else has helped in any way. Thanks again.

Report · Oct 02, 2022

Just had a thought. What if you change the default keyboard on your mac to the appropriate language. I've never done this, but might be worth a shot... system preferences: keyboard: Input Sources and add the appropriate language... Ya know most of us think wherever they live is the center of the universe so we don't usually have to deal with alternate language fonts, etc... Let us know if this helps...

Report · Oct 02, 2022

I doubt it would make any difference because I'm not typing. I am copying the text into Premiere/Photoshop from a text file. I have thought of a few work arounds. The easiest one I've thought of so far is copy it into the desired font PS and then export the PS text layer into Premiere. I haven't tried it yet but don't see why it shouldn't work. Thanks again for your help.

Report · Oct 02, 2022

Can you paste a short sample for us to use to test? Which flavor of Futura are you using? (I don't know if it matters.)

Using Futura PT Light, I can paste this Cyrillic:

ж

And this Georgian:

დ

Win10; PR 22.6.2

Stan

Report · Oct 03, 2022

Thanks Stan, that’s interesting. I’m using Mac OS 10.11.3 and PR version 12.1.2. PT light is not one of the options for me, it’s condensed medium, condensed extra bold, medium or medium italic. I managed to write greek and cyrillic in “Luminari” in PR but not managed to write georgian with any fonts I have tried and I’ve tried all the well known ones.

Futura does it in PS but it doesn’t even do greek or cyrillic in PR! This is very weird! Thanks again for your help.

Report · Oct 03, 2022

There are a few different font formats. Find the font in font book, control click on it and reveal in finder and you'll see the file name with the extension which tells you the font format. See if the extension for font that works matches the extension for the font that doesn't work... If they don't match, you'll probably need to find an alternate with the same extension as the font that does work

Report · Oct 04, 2022

Thanks for that. The problem is numerous fonts work in PS, presumably all the major ones. I didn't try them all because the default font I use (Futura) worked Ok. In PR I haven't tried them all but I've tried numerous and none of them work in Georgian. Futura is .ttc Luminari is .ttf. I'm not sure how that would help though. Thanks again for your help.

Report · Oct 04, 2022

there are some font conversion programs on the internet. Might be worth a shot to try converting the one you want to work in premiere but doesnt to a couple of different formats..

Report · Oct 04, 2022

Yeah, a font conversion program sounds like a good idea. I'll look into it. Thanks.

Report · Oct 04, 2022

keep us posted...

Report · Oct 03, 2022

My two characters also worked in Future PT Condensed Medium.

One of the reasons I ask if you can paste something here, is that sometimes the characters being copy/pasted are unicode combinations.

Stan

Report · Oct 04, 2022

Ok, sorry about that. so here is a sample of the characters pasted …

მადლობა შეჩერებისთვის

It should say “thanks for stopping by” or something thing like that, when visiting our website.

Report · Oct 02, 2022

gotta say that your suggested workflow of creating the text in photoshop can be a very efficient workflow. And if you have any changes, you just select the clip in your Premiere timeline and control click and choose "edit original" or is it "edit in photoshop." and when you make the change and do a save, the clip is updated in Premiere...