Emoji appear as black and white in Final Cut Pro X

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Emoji appear as black and white in Final Cut Pro X

Using the Character Viewer in OSX Mavericks, I was able to put some colorful emoji into one of my films in FCPX.

I moved the project to a new computer and now the emoji will only show up in black and white! I can't adjust the colors or the font settings, or anything to get the emoji to appear in color again!

Same project, different computer, different emoji. I have looked across my settings and preferences and I can't figure out why this is happening. Anyone else have any suggestions or experiences here? 😕

Thanks,

Justin

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Posted on Mar 9, 2014 9:03 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Mar 10, 2014 6:08 AM in response to Justino

Look in Applications/Fontbook. Is the font called Apple Color Emoji present and enabled?

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Justino Author

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Mar 10, 2014 9:40 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Yes - thanks, good question Tom. I have Apple Color Emoji installed and active. I was just able to drag a full-color emoji into iMessages.

When I drag an emoji into a text-line in Final Cut Pro, I get the emoji looking regular in color in the inspector, but the emoji is grayscale in the previewer :-/ Here's a picture:

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Justino Author

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Mar 10, 2014 11:56 AM in response to Justino

Update:

I've tried deleting my FCPX preferences, cache and layout file and no luck yet in my primary user acount!

I tried making a new user on my system, and that new user can input color emoji into Final Cut Pro X 10.1 just fine. Still researching how to enable my primary user to be able to input color emoji!

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jameboyy

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Mar 28, 2014 4:53 PM in response to Justino

I'm sorry to be of no aid to you in this situation, but I can't seem to get the emojis to show / be visible whatsoever! Have you had this problem at all? And if so, how did you rectify it?

I would really appreciate your help with this as it seems that nowhere else on the internet has had this problem (or at least not encountered it!)

Thanks in advance,

jameboyy

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Answer 5

Sep 21, 2014 9:03 AM in response to jameboyy

Hi, Jameboyy, I have the same exact problem! I see that this comment was from quite a while back, did you happen to find a solution??

Thanks!

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May 26, 2016 1:02 PM in response to Justino

Hi Justino,

have you found out any other solution?

Thanks for your response

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May 27, 2016 5:11 AM in response to Marian234

Have you tried this recently? I tried this - two macs running El Capitan 10.11.5; add emojis, then copy the library to a second mac, and the emojis appear in full color.

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