Saving special fonts used in project request.

Hi all.

When I was working in FCP 7 and I used a unique font for a title, I learned the hard way that when archiving everything at the end of editing it is also a very good idea to archive any used fonts (unless they happen to be system default fonts) in a folder.

I say the hard way, because I had a hard drive event several years ago and had to re-install everything on that drive. Then the problems came about when I would revisit that FCP 7 project and either an error message or I just noticed the font wasn't correct. There was also no clue as to what face I had used.

I have not tested this, but does X at least tell you by name what font is missing? Years back I sent feedback to Apple about this but instead of doing that, they came out with X.

I'm guessing it's the same thing: one still has to archive a copy of the font(s) used in a project, But it would be helpful if there was a consolidation method that would collect at least the name of a font(s) used in case you loose a font folder by some means.

Any opinions?

Jonathan

How about this?

Choose a text clip in the project. In the metadata view at the bottom of the inspector you can add a custom metadata field. Name it "Font" and fill in the name of the font.

Or save the text style attributes and name it with the name of the font.

Thanks anickt! I'll try this out in the next day or so.