How it looks in the UI:
How it looks when rendered:
Windows 11
26.4.30
Yes. Create rich text of timestamps when your project is nearly done allowing future viewers to jump to areas of interest. Use tab stops to align content. Observe it looks nice.
Start a render in 4k using best interlacing and sampling, go to sleep,
Wake up after the 8 hour render ready to present your AI quickstart presentation to a room full of software engineers.
Observe tabs are randomised.
Have you tried using a table for proper alignment?
Guessing the font you used is not monospaced.
Example frame export:
That would’ve been good to know yesterday - and I probably would’ve discovered it if the preview hadn’t mislead me into thinking it would render tab stops.exactly the same as a word processor.
I’m not quite sure how you were able to tab align within the Text Rich filter. I had attempted to do so, but wasn’t able to.
Further guessing is that you may have typed this in a word processing app, then copied the text to the filter.
So I attempted what I had guessed, with WordPad.
Had to resize the various lines of text, along with making centering changes within the Rich Text filter. Then I changed the font size. Leaving the default “Verdana” of the Text Rich filter.
Because of the tab spacing, I had to find the correct font size with the Text Rich filter so that the timestamps appear as the final export had shown.
Exported frame:
For me, it’s working as intended. I tried to duplicate the issue.
Windows 10
Shotcut 26.4.30
I didn’t use a word processor. Just hit tab in the rich text field like you would in a word processor.
I had switched to left aligned text, the default was centred.
It behaves exactly like a word processor does, so:
a(tab)b
aa(tab)b
Results in the “b”s being aligned in the preview, but not aligned in the render.
Ideally the preview needs to match the render, that way I could discover “Oh this just renders each tab as x pixels rather than tab stops, Maybe I should try to make something table like”
Pressing Control-Shift-E to render an image of that frame will also render the tabs in their messed up form.
The editor is just that–an editor–and not a full preview. Did you deselect the filter or choose Player > Toggle Filter Overlay to preview? That hides the editor and shows how the backend renders. Some might call the editor WYSIWYG, but actually it is more like WYSIWY might Get. Others have mentioned here about how other filters can interact poorly with the rich text editor, but filters are generally not aware of each other–not that it was the case here. However, for this, I suspect the zoom-to-fit scaling within preview behaves a little different than full resolution render.
I didn’t at the time, but now it’s bitten me I’ll be on the lookout for this gotcha in the future.
Hopefully by raising this ticket some simple tweak can be made so the next person wont make the same mistake.
