[Avid-L2] Re: Damn you, Marquee!!!!!

 

I've fought these battles with limited success too using Transtype Pro.  To restate my position, "I HATE FONTS" the family name vs. the menu name and other metadata choices confuse the hell out of me and I've never found a Fontologist that could enlighten me on this.

It is common to see fonts appear in Marquee that don't show in title tool and vice versa.  The former is more common than the latter.  Sometimes I've had to remove all the fonts in a certain family or category, not sure of the proper nomenclature, leaving only the one I need and then it will show up with the correct font.

I sure wish there was a demote function to get it back to title tool.  I think a flutter slap on the other editor might at least make you feel better.  Marquee is powerful but overkill for most all of my title needs.  Now that I have to wrangle New Blue FX's pain in the arse interface I doubt I will ever bother to become proficient in Marquee.  New Blue FX is less intimidating than Marquee but I still miss the familiarity of the title tool for basic work.  Simple things like left justify to safe title etc... are things I use all the time and I haven't found those in New Blue FX yet.  To be honest I haven't hammered on either enough to feel comfortable with them.

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Hey Steve,

I just had to troubleshoot some Mac-Windows-Marquee issues, so maybe this may help:

On a Mac, make sure your font is a TrueType font, not an OpenType variant. You can convert font types on https://onlinefontconverter.com/

Even if you have converted the font, you may still get the error message (if it's feasible to manually change the font to the right one, you're done here). The Mac and Windows versions of Marquee show slightly different font names sometimes.

That's because one font may well have different names. In the font Metadata there one name "Family Name" and one "Name for Humans". If these don't match for the standard font (i.e. not bold or italic, but regular), on a PC Marquee will show the font as "Font Name Regular", on the Mac as "Font Name" – thus it won't find the font. I changed metadata with a program called FontForge (free) and it went from Mac to PC and vice versa.

Good luck,

Christian

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