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21st Aug 10
Rodney
Motion – Matching Fonts Between Motion and Final Cut Pro
A font in Motion doesn’t match the same font in FCP. Here’s what to do.
Font Tracking
If you’ve tried to match a font in Final Cut to a font you are using in Motion, you’ve probably been surprised that they don’t match.
I did some research and discovered that while Motion and Final Cut calculate the font SIZE the same, but they don’t calculate font TRACKING the same.
To match fonts between the applications, create a text clip in Final Cut with the font you want to use and set the tracking to 1.8 in the Controls tab of Final Cut Pro. They won’t match perfectly, but they will match pretty darn close. So close, that if I took a screen shot at 50% scale, you would not see a difference.
Courtesy of Larry Jordan
