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FCP Font cheat sheet
Hello to all,
I am working on a project right that is 30 different travel videos, and every client wants a different font for their contact info. I have been trying to look through all of the different fonts that FCP has, and it is taking forever.
Is there some kind of cheat sheet that shows what the fonts in the text generator actually looks like, instead of having to manually change the font type for each individual style just to see it. I really like how Motion allows you to scroll and the font changes for each different style. Or how Microsoft Word has each different font name written in the style that it is. But, unless I am mistaken, FCP doesn’t have anything as easy as this. So, since I am not an expert in fonts, I was wondering if any of you guys and gals have had this hold up as well. And if you know any thing that could help.
Thanks in advance for you replies.
Beau
FCP 6
Mac Book Pro 17in, 2.3ghz, 4gb ram
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6 Replies
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Applications > Font Book
Jeremy
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Wait for Leopard!
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Why wait?
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along those same lines, does anyone know of a utility that will let you print your font library to make a font book? Often it is easier and quicker to look at several on a page than to scroll through font book.
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A couple of helpful items:
– In Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4), the included “Font Book.app” from Apple won’t print out a “font specimen” book, which seems to be what you want. In Leopard (10.5), Font Book will (supposedly) be able to print out font specimen books/sheets.
– Probably the best solution for printing out all sorts of different font samples/specimens is an application called “FontBook” (no space), which has been around longer than Apple’s Font Book. Look at macupdate.com or versiontracker.com for a link. It’s worth the smalll shareware fee.
-Dave
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Send a typical frame to Motion then typset and just slide up and down the font selector. The font changes fast as you slide and previews beautifully.
Alan in PALland
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