A LOGO font in Final Cut Pro?

I think that I understood your question from the start.

Any font that is supported on the mac should work. Alas, that is not the case of the font you made some time ago

with TypeDeko.

You could, as was noted already, recreate a font in a program such as FontForge.

But, really, adding a logo, keying, etc., are so easy to do in Final Cut Pro that it seems to me that forcing the use of a font would involve some amount of work with questionable benefits. You may press a key but would have to insert a title and choose a font for it, instead of just dragging a file from the browser (or directly from Finder) to the timeline. Unless you are expecting to type a few of those characters in a row, it does not seem to be worth going through all the trouble, I think.

I looked up TypeDeko to see what we're trying to compare things to. This was far more than just a font app. It was much more like a crawler creation tool for broadcast, where text could be created beforehand for news segments, or on-the-fly for live events.

TypeDeko was a pioneering character generator (CG) broadcast software developed by Pinnacle Systems (and later managed under Avid's product ecosystem) that allowed users to pre-build fonts, titles, and live on-screen graphics.

It served as the offline software counterpart to the industry-standard Deko hardware-based character generators (such as the FXDeko). It was widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s within television news production, linear editing bays, and mobile broadcast trucks.

Key Historical Features

• Offline Title Creation: Production teams used TypeDeko licenses on standalone office computers to design motion graphics, choose typefaces, and pre-build text overlays before going live or entering expensive editing suites.

• Automation and Playlists: The software could link directly to video tape recorders (VTRs) or linear edit controllers. It used automated playlists and timecodes to push titles on-screen exactly on cue.

• Inherited Framework: It inherited its layout rules and macro systems from older "Dubner" graphics engines. This allowed designers to hard-wire strict templates (font size, color palette, position) so live operators could quickly type in news data without breaking the visual brand.

It was last sold by Avid in 2/28/2000, and reached end-of-life support in 2/8/2005. So, two decades out of production.

So, knowing this, Motion is about the closest thing to TypeDeko's use.

But then, I think I see why you're trying to do this is a font. By placing logos into your video text, they flow with the text as you edit it. Just placed into a static timeline, the logo will sit in one spot as the text moves around it, requiring a manual replacement of the logo each time you edit the text. And if the text moves, you have to apply the same motion to a separate logo so it moves relative to the text.

That only leaves a Color Font as an option (the Apple Color Emoji.ttc font is a Color Font). All other fonts are just outlines with solid fill colors. I don't know if FontForge can create those. Heck, I don't know if the FontLab software I have does. I've never looked.

Basically, you'd drop a raster or vector color image into a font cell and save it out as a Color Font.

Where did you find all that detailed info about the program?

Me cheat. 😃 Me use Google to find info on TypeDeko and that's what AI spit out at the top. Since you can't outright trust AI results, I then looked a bit further to verify before posting AI's output.

I did use FontLab today to make a very simple Color Font. Threw in a couple of raster images, and one vector image. Output the font as OpenType PostScript and it worked in Photoshop, Affinity and a few others. Some apps wouldn't display the glyphs, but that's not unusual for Color Fonts. They're still kind of an in-the-works thing.

But as long as FCP recognizes a Color Font, it would solve the issue of placing logos inline with your other text so they would always flow with any edits.

I'll try to remember to place my little test font where you can download it tomorrow. The only keys that have anything assigned to them are a, b and c .

You can create Motion Paths from font characters in Pixelmator exported as paths, so you can find a font that's close to what you need and edit the outline path in Motion (or Pixelmator).

Note: I say this from hearsay... I don't have the version of Motion that can handle Pixelmator outline paths.

I see FontForge is recommended. It's free. It's not as easy to learn as Fontographer was... but you might also consider checking out BirdFont which is not nearly as complicated to learn as FontForge. If you have an image of the character/word you need, most modern font making apps can handle auto-tracing (imported) images. From Google AI, Pixelmator does not have an auto-trace feature.

BTW, you **can** create 1 character fonts if you only need that 1 character.

Reading more about TypeDeko (one word), it looks as if all the effects it was capable of for manipulating text are available in Motion and FCP. Things like Scale (horizontal and vertical for "stretching"), kerning, tracking, and line spacing (aka, leading). Face color, outline, conversion to 3D, shadows and glows, etc... all available in both Apple apps. PLUS, many effects can be applied to expand further on these features (long shadows, other types of glows and shadows, etc...) So the need for a 3rd party font creation app may not be necessary at all.

PS - we would *prefer* to see you here in this forum if you can tolerate the convolution! Hopefully you'll find better quality replies here!

Ah, it sounds like Type Deko created the font in a now ancient bitmapped format. If so, those are long gone obsolete.

You could recreate your logo in a modern font format (OpenType) by using the free, open-source font editor/creation app, FontForge.

Weird. This is all that showed under your question when I first looked.

Is it possible to do this in Final Cut Pro?

Now seeing the rest, then yes, as long as it's a font that works as you would expect in other apps (such as a word processor), then there's no reason it shouldn't work in FCP. Not unless you saved your custom font in the now obsolete Type 1 PostScript format.

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That's too much information. Unable to parse the meaning.

Is the font installed in your mac? Can you confirm that it works correctly in (for example) TextEdit? If the answer to both questions is yes, then I am sure you can use it in FCP.