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Elizabeth26923621an9k
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July 25, 2023
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How to use alternative letter/glyph in Premiere Pro Captions?

  • July 25, 2023
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I need to use the alternate letter Y for the Heimat Stencil Semibold font in a Premiere Pro project.

I can find the alternate Y by using the Glyphs panel in Illustrator, and am able to just copy and paste the letter into After Effects. I have tried typing in the keyboard code or pasting the letter across with Premiere Pro but it doesn't work.

What am I missing here in order to use the alternative character? Surely Premiere Pro would support alternate characters, if it can caption and would need to use accented letters for foreign languages?

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Correct answer Stan Jones

Elizabeth,

 

Is your goal to burn in the captions? Are you using the PR caption tool (i.e. caption segments on their own Caption track)? Or are these graphics text on a video track?

 

What is the keyboard code? I'll test once I know how you are using it.

 

Stan

 

 

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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July 25, 2023

Elizabeth,

 

Is your goal to burn in the captions? Are you using the PR caption tool (i.e. caption segments on their own Caption track)? Or are these graphics text on a video track?

 

What is the keyboard code? I'll test once I know how you are using it.

 

Stan

 

 

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    Elizabeth26923621an9kAuthor
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    July 25, 2023

    Yes the captions need to be burnt in.

    They are on a seperate track and were transcribed through the captions tool.

     

    On Illustrator, the correct letter Y code says "U+0079 Stylistic Alternates (salt)"

    Stan Jones
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    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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    July 25, 2023

    Backup the project and duplicate the sequence to avoid problems with experimenting!

     

    Since PR 23.1, you can select one or more captions, and use "Graphics -> Upgrade Caption to Graphic." This removes the caption(s) from the caption track and moves them to a video track.

     

    I do not know whether you can use stylistic alternatives in PR. In fact, this is my introduction to the concept. @Kevin-Monahan?

     

    One method if you don't have too many is just export from photoshop/illustrator as a graphic and add to a track, deleting the character in the caption (or the "upgraded" graphic text). I think the easiest match would be to upgrade caption to graphic, and then in that graphic instance, add a layer and add the graphic there.

     

    Stan

     

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