Final Cut Pro titles: Bold font reverts to Regular on export

soumendra wrote:

Which work around do you mean it has again started working for you what is the OS version

I think that the workaround is to adjust some other parameter in the Text Inspector. It does not have to be actually changed, for example, if you select Bold Italic, then make a change to Alignment, say, click to align right, then change it back to center, it will then keep and honor the Bold Italic.

I'm surprised about the Compound clip situation.

Here's Basic Text Effect OSC (has some modifications)

https://fcpxtemplates.com/sdm_downloads/basic-title-effect-osc/

Editable in FCP is turned off.

Ability to position in the viewer now relies on an OSC. This changes the values visible for the parameters (decimal fractions).

All Caps and All Caps Size added.

To make adapting this effect to a project in progress, it can be applied to the actual Title. Select the text of the original Title's text and paste it into the Text parameter of the effect. [Replace the original text with a **space** character... just in case.] Be sure to align the Effect's text to the original before "disappearing" it.

It will help speed things up in projects with a lot of titles to change if you take the time to format the (effect) text font, size, alignment, etc... and save an Effects Preset (OR, you can ⌘C copy the effect when it is selected for the clip, then for subsequent clips, ⌘-shift-V to paste the effect, already formatted, to the new text/title.

HTH

Hopefully, Apple will fix this issue post haste!

This is really frustrating. Similarly, I had my font as Semi-Bold and it would revert to Regular when I exported the project. This happened in brand new libraries with simple Arial Bold text and on different machines I have with FCP 12.2.

My workaround was to delete all the fonts in the family of fonts I was using except for the bold one. And FCP exported correctly.

However, this is not sustainable. I hope this bugs is fixed.

I will try deleting FCP preferences but it's really a pain to have to reset everything on several machines... hopefully not to discover the problem is still there.

I'll do that when I get the chance.

Are you sure the title is downloaded on your machine? I had a similar problem in the past. When I check the font with the Font Book app the font was not fully downloaded.

The typing an extra character and then deleting it works for me as well. At least there's a workaround that we can use for the next several months or more.

funforfinfans wrote:

Thank you so much for your service. You saved me hours. What a ridiculous bug.

This specific bug is supposed to have already been fixed in version 12.4.

Ian, can you try this:

1) Add a basice title (Control-t)

2) In the Text Inspector, change from Regular to, for example, Bold Oblique

3) Make the title into a compound clip (Option-G)

Does the font retain the Bold Oblique appearance? For me, it does not.

But if I add this step: 2b) change alignment to right, then immediately change it to center,

then it retains the correct appearance

@Luis

I'd like to try another option, if you could help me out by testing it?

https://fcpxtemplates.com/sdm_downloads/basic-text-plus-title/

This is a Title version of Basic Text Effect and should facilitate replacing problematic Titles by keeping the original text when making a replacement.

It's basically a Basic Title with extra options added for the Title Inspector. Avoid using the Text Inspector (I'm guessing that's where this problem originates).

Make sure Edit Text in Viewer is turned off on export.

Thanks in advance!

I had a super hard time with this issue tonight. I had two titles, both the same font using Bold. I adjusted the kerning and line spacing etc back and forth and it worked for one of the titles but the other one would not work no matter what I did. I eventually got it to work by selecting a different font, going back to my original font, selecting BOLD and then fudging around with the other settings and setting them back.

Sadly Apple is never in any hurry to fix bugs. Even big ones. I figure that the Pro Apps department is extremely understaffed these days, otherwise they'd be quick to fix a bug like this... well unless they just can't figure out HOW to fix it like so many other bugs in FCP. I truly think they need to remake the app from the ground up again, but not the same way FCPX was to FCP7. Make it the same basic app with the same functionality, just rebuilt for the better without all of the Band-Aid fixes.

nathanculli wrote:

Appreciate the advice, unfortunately neither of those fixes worked for me. Mostly posting in here just to try to get Apple to notice this bug and get it fixed. It's absurdly annoying and I've been trying to export the same project over 10 times because of it. A few of my exports have managed to export some of the text boxes properly while failing to get most correct. But most of them are just straight up all wrong. Insane that this is still a problem with a software of this level. (Note, I'm on the new 12.3 update and this is still a problem.)

Posting here does not help to make Apple fix it.

This is a user forum.

Add your voice to those of us reporting the bug, by using

Final Cut Pro->Provide Final Cut Pro Feedback...

The reports that users make there are sent to the FCP team. What we write here is seen by other users, not Apple.

Apple's participation here is just forum moderation, not engineering.

Indeed, changing the line spacing for me seems to do the trick. Thanks for the tip! Also, I guess this works if you only have one line of text. Mind you, this font re-sizing-changing-on-its-own bug will be fixed soon.

I cannot reproduce it on FCP 12.2

One more thing I would try out is making the titles (or the titles and the clips they are over) into compound clips before exporting.