How to use alternative letter/glyph in Premiere Pro Captions?

[Elizabeth26923621an9k]

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?

[Stan Jones · Accepted solution]

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

[Elizabeth26923621an9k]

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]

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

[Elizabeth26923621an9k]

Hi Stan,

I will definitely try converting the captions to a graphic and see if that is the solution.

But, if I was after an accented Y instead of just a stylistic different character, how would I go about that then? Say for example I needed to caption a foreign language or use accented letters, surely there must be an easy way to change the characters, rather than have to export from Photoshop/Illustrator? 

[Stan Jones]

If the transcription is in a foreign language, I think that may be as simple as font selection. But it can be a case by case issue.

Stan

[Elizabeth26923621an9k]

Unfortunately, converting the captions to graphics makes no difference.