Text problems: no text filter/dearth of fonts for 3D

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Hello all!

Just tried my hand at Shotcut and ran into two problems:

– no text filter (yes, I clicked on the screen/show video filters icon, and yes I read all the posts I could find about that here – and I’m not HTML-savvy):

– the 3D text filter works OK, but there are apparently only 5 in-built fonts available, and I’d like to use TTF fonts from my machine:

[no screenshot here, alas, as new users can’t post more than one image – which made me laugh]

Is that possible?

Thanks for your help, and kudos to the developers for Shotcut, which looks great, and for making it available for free!

OldNick (Win10 home x64, Shotcut 18.03.06)

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Disable GPU processing and the text filter will appear.

That’s all the fonts you get with 3D text. The explanation is here.

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Well, that was fast!

Thanks sauron, I’ll try your fix and report back.

Too bad for the system fonts in 3D… [insert sad smiley here]

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Okay, that worked! As sauron (thanks again) said, you have to disable GPU usage to have the text filter.

Unfortunately Shotcut didn’t let me just change the project settings for that, I had to rebuild from scratch (no big deal, it was just for testing). Or I goofed somehow…

I have another question, but I’ll put it in a new thread.

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