Fonts in final cut pro...

Hi I'm fairly new to Macs in general and very new to FCP. I'm using FCP 5.4 and just learning the ropes. My question is this when creating a piece of text you have the option to change the font. On my system or set up anyways there is no way i can see what the font will look like until i have changed it. Is there any (free) way to make the font names appear in the font style? or barring that does anyone know where I might be able to print out a list of the fonts that FCP uses in the font style itself? I've found a few lists of all the mac fonts but there all listed in the same font. any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
Brucey Bizzit

Actually, Final Cut Pro does show you a typeface preview in the text entry box, but it's so tiny as to be almost useless.
Not all applications show you a preview list in the typeface style. I seem to remember Freehand did, maybe MS Office too -I don't have either of them.
Other than learning about typefaces, you can go to Edit > Select All in FontBook then choose File > Print > PDF which will give you an onboard .pdf document with each typeface printed in its style.
If you have plenty of paper, or something against trees, print as normal.

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Hello,
A while back I posted a thread asking about using the font manager "Suitecase" and Final Cut Pro. It was clear that Suitecase should not be used with Final Cut. I work at an ad agency and we have a database of 4000 fonts. Does anyone know of a good font managing program that plays well with Final Cut? Using the standard font manager that comes with an Apple computer is not an option. Also, using Borris 3D is also not the answer because of the time it takes to create and make changes to a slate. Help me!
Thanks in advance.
-Amber

Any font management program should make fonts available to your system and all the apps in the same way, right? What's so bad about Font Book anyway? I was so relieved not to have to deal with Suitcase and /or Font Reserve once I got on OS X. I can see all my fonts, turn them on and off, it's easy to look for special characters, arrange the fonts in different collections, etc.
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Add to this the way that these objects will randomly disappear or use vestigal render files when you export or encode mpeg-2, but never when previewing the timeline, and the way that Boris will render any project that uses a Boris generator unopenable if you replace your system Helvetica with the Adobe version, and you'll wind up with a lot less hair at the end of your day.
All that said, I use it all the time, and grit my teeth in frustration the whole way as I re-create, replace, re-format, troubleshoot, and double and triple check evey second of my work every step of the way, and re-encode, and reformat again, and troubleshoot some more.
If I have lots of lower 3rds or IDs to do, where I want them to come up in the same position on the screen, I find FCP's generic type generator works ok, as long as you never move the generator clip from 0,0 in the motion tab. The generator only converts the font to pixels once, and moving the resulting clip resample the video image of the type instead of regenerating the type from the font in te new position, which means that if you drag the clip to a new position in the canvas in wireframe mode, it will look blurry, always. Use the origin crosshairs in the type controls instead. Of course, the only generator that allows you to do this is the one that does not allow you to have multiple fonts, sizes, or style in a single object. The one thing I use type generators for most often is to make a lower 3rd template for use throughout a long program that will always occupy the same position on the screen each time I use it, and I wish I could use two different sizes in one object. I can't believe that this is the one thing that is impossible in FCP.
Another thing about the FCP type generators is that they do not support font families at all. Try Univers, for instance, and you'll notice that instead of 45 Light, 55 regular, and 65 Bold, you have Plain, Italic, Bold, and Bold/Italic. Notice also that if you choose Plain, you get italic. Fun! The way this appears to work is that, within a certain family of fonts, FCP will take the first four that it sees and assign them to Plain, Bold, etc., in the alphebetical order that the source files would appear in the finder (acutally I think there is an even more arcane, less logical method it uses to pick these styles, but I have never been able to figure it out).
These three issues, no character-specific formatting, quality loss if the clip is repositioned, and the inability to support font families, have never been resolved since FCP 1.0 - the tool remains essentially unchanged. Perhaps they figure that anyone who really cares enough about their project never uses it anyway, so why bother fixing it? But I acutally do use it with fairly good results, just never move the clip from 0,0, and if I need to use Univers 65 Bold, I just turn off all the other Univers families to force FCP to recognize 65 bold as "Plain".
ok, font rant over, we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.

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There is no provision for loading fonts into FCP. Use FontBook to add fonts; choose to make the fonts available to all users so they'll be installed in .[boot drive]/Library/Fonts.
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A few days ago I probalby messed up something with fonts. I work on iMac and several Macs Pro - each of them work in network.
The problem is: when i create a text in LiveType using Myriad Pro Bold Condensed, and then i put it on a sequence in Final Cut, the font is gettin' very weird. It doesn't show every letter. For example it shows every second or even third letter. When i change font everything seems to be OK.
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Sorry for my english.
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You'd probably get the best advice by posting in the Final Cut Studio discussions area instead of here.
The only troubleshooting I could recommend would be to validate the font in Font Book. Open Font Book (it's located in the Applications folder) and find the font in the list you're having problems with. Right-click on the font and select Validate Font. Font Book will check to make sure the font is not corrupted. If the font is corrupt and you have a Time Machine backup available, use Time Machine to restore an earlier version of the font. If it is not, then it's probably something wrong with the Final Cut applications.
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I'm using Final Cut Pro 5.0.4 in Mac OS 10.4.3 on a 2005 Dual 2.7 Ghz G5 with 1.5 Ghz of RAM.
When I use certain fonts (for example, Apple's Hoefler Text) in any of FCP 5's text filters, the text appears scrambled. Either the material appears in the wrong font (I think it's Apple's "LastResort" font) or it's the symbol/dingbat version of the font. The scrambled output obeys my commands about italic, bold etc. but it's still the wrong font. With other fonts, the correct font is not selected from within the font "family"; I'll choose "Roman" and get italic and then chose "italic" and get an artificially bent-over "false" italic that's obviously the italic font canted to one side.
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Reconnect the offline media and life should be good.
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x

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Is my issue with Final Cut Pro or my Macbook pro?

I'm going to try to be as thorough as possible in explaining my situation because I can't figure this problem out and it's exhausting me. I have an early 2011 macbook pro with the 2.2 ghz processor. I upgraded to 16gb of ram almost a year ago. I've been using Final Cut Pro 7 on this computer for several years now without issue and have made no setting changes that would prompt my problems. A few months ago my battery decided to stop holding a charge and now just registers 0%. Around the same time, while editing a short video my computer began behaving like it was overheating. It would crash, restart, crash and then restart again. After I did a disk and permissions repair it began to work normally again and I haven't had any more crashing issues. Around this period of time I began noticing that when my computer turns on it doesn't register the correct time and date. Given a few moments it corrects itself, but for some strange reason it was doing that every time.
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