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The infamous kerning problem !
Hey everyone,
I have an issue with Final Cut Pro X, I actually like the program but it won’t me allow to kern my titles. The kerning option is greyed out and won’t budge. Kerning in Motion 5 is also not working… it’s now become a massive problem for me. I know it’s a bug in FCP X but I got the impression it had been fixed for the version I have which is 10.0.2.
Does anyone know if they are fixing the problem or even better, have a solution for me how to get around this problem? Like I said, I tried Motion and also created titles in Photoshop, but it’s not the same.. I really need my kerning 🙁
Any answers and thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers and Thank you
Deb
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10 Replies
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I haven’t experienced this myself, but a good first step would be to update to 10.0.3 and see if that happens to fix the problem.
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Place the cursor between two letters. Kerning should then be available. It’s working on my system with 10.0.2
NT
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Oh that totally did it. No problems now 🙂 Thank you so much.. it’s so obvious to once you see it hahaha
Thanks guys!
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Yes, it would be nice to have.
Perhaps Kerning will be implemented in a future release, and this is just a place holder. There is nothing on Kerning in the latest User Guide for FCP X 10.0.3.
Let Apple know by filling out a Feedback form from the program menu:
Final Cut Pro > Provide Final Cut Pro Feedback, and that will open a page in Safari.
Or go there directly: https://www.apple.com/feedback/finaclcutpro.html
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Thank you, it would definitely be nice to have. I’m surprised they didn’t make sure it was working, it’s so important. I will fill leave a comment for the feedback section right now. Cheers
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Learned something new today. Thanks, Nick. Still nothing in the latest User Guide
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For what it is worth, the term “kerning” denoted the adjustment of space between individual characters. “Tracking” is the spacing of a group of letters. From my experience this has worked since day one in FCP X.
Select a group of number of charcters and tracking will be active. But put the cursor between two characters and kerning will be available.
BTW. This is a great addition to Final Cut’s basis titler. I used to always goto Photoshop or After Effects to set titles. Now FCP X can make the highest quality titles and I can kern to my hearts content.
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T. Payton
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Hey, ya the tracking works fine, the kerning does as well but I have to do each individual letter. I’ve searched around and it seemed to have been a bug in the first version of Final Cut X… so far so good though, it doesn’t keep me from doing my work.
I really like Final Cut X, once you get used to it and it’s so fast, can’t wait to see what they will do to it in the future 🙂
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Hmm, I hope this reply shows up, seems like my previous reply didn’t.
Anyways, I noticed another defect. When i make changes to my titles be it line spacing, kerning or tracking they don’t get saved. Next time I open Final Cut Pro X my titles are just the basic font set at whatever the default settings are.. this is really frustrating because it takes me ages to kern all my titles, so now basically I’ll have to do it just before I export…. is there a way to save titles separately? or make sure they get saved in FCP X??
Cheers 🙂
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For what it is worth, the term “kerning” denoted the adjustment of space between individual characters. “Tracking” is the spacing of a group of letters. From my experience this has worked since day one in FCP X.
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps the User Guide should explain this?
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