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You should be aware of the following when re-creating title media:
• For best results, use OpenType fonts, which reduce problems when transferring projects
from one platform to another.
• If you are moving across platforms and the transferred title text uses a single style (the same
font and type size), the title text aligns as closely as possible to its original position. The size
of the text bounding box adjusts to accommodate the differences between the Macintosh and
Windows versions of the font. You might see a changed leading value in the Title Tool
leading field to adjust for multiline text.
Because the Macintosh and Windows systems handle fonts differently, you might see
variations in the appearance of titles between the two systems. If necessary, adjust the size of
the bounding box, leading values, or kerning information.
For example, bounding boxes that were set on a Macintosh system might appear in a
different size on a Windows system. Some clipping of the new text might occur and words
might be lost. If this clipping occurs, you need to open the title, select the text box, and
manually change the size of the text box or the size of the fonts to display all the text.
For more information on differences between the Macintosh and Windows versions of a
font, contact the font supplier.
• If the original system used any applications to manipulate font display (such as Adobe Type
Manager
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), the enhancements these applications provided on the original system (such as
character anti-aliasing or character spacing) will not transfer to a system that does not use
your Avid editing application.
• You should save titles created in an offline project with anamorphically downconverted
media as 16:9. See “(Symphony) Preparing Titles for the Online Session” on page 1112.
Redefining a Font Replacement
You can redefine a font replacement at any time. However, your new font choice applies only to
a title currently in the Title tool and future replacements. It does not affect the font replacement
information in titles you have worked with previously.
Your Avid editing application saves font relationships as a site settings file named
AvidFontSub.avt. This file is located in the Settings folder, which is located in the Avid Media
Composer folder on your internal drive.
Once you have defined a font replacement, your Avid editing application uses that definition
across all projects and all users of the system. If you want to switch to a different replacement
font for a title, you must redefine the font replacement.
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If you replace the font for a title and return that title to an Avid editing application on a
Macintosh system, the new font information is associated with the title. You must reapply the
Macintosh font to restore the title to its original Macintosh style.