Subtitle text appears correct in Captions window but not in preview or final video

Report · Sep 19, 2023

Hoping someone has an idea to resolve a problem I have with trying to do some subtitles in Sinhala.

The text appears correctly in the Captions Window, but in the Preview and in any video output some characters aren't composed correctly (sample files attached). I have tried multiple Unicode Sinhala fonts and they all have the same problem.

Have tried turning ligatures on and off (in both the track settings and the general preferences) and that makes no difference. I believe the issue is with the text engine, but that's no longer in preferences, so I can't change anything there. The text works fine in Indesign, but if I change the paragraph composer there back to just Adobe Paragraph Composer rather than "World Ready" composer a similar problem occurs.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Report · Sep 19, 2023

@Ayandeh,

Do you see the same problems with regular graphics text in PR?

Yes, there was a change to a universal text engine in December 2021. The only choices now are Hindi digits and left to right/right to left.

See this discussion of unicode issues:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premier-pro-wont-include-french-accents-in-c...

@Mike-Berry @jstrawn Thoughts?

Stan

Report · Sep 19, 2023

Thanks Stan,

No, the problem is only in this language. When I look up the problematic character in Indesign's "Glyphs" it is identified as (“Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna” Unicode “ODCA +200D +ODBA) and it gets replaced with the character that Indesign recognises as (“Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna” but only identified by “ODCA”).

I don't think there is anyway in Premiere Pro to change what glyph it is using? And it appears correctly in the Captions window anyway?

Report · Nov 18, 2024

Hi there, hope you have found a solution for this.
If not I can help you out for this.