{"id":1041,"date":"2012-01-17T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2012-01-17T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:11:21","slug":"avid-tip-ugly-fonts-in-media-composer-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1041","title":{"rendered":"Avid Tip: Ugly fonts in Media Composer 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first installed Avid Media Composer 6, I ran into an issue where the main Avid UI application font was horribly ugly. It was low rez, unsmoothed, and had awful kerning. Like this:<\/p>\n

\"Ugly \"Ugly
Ugly aliased badly-kerned fonts. Notice how not all text is ugly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It turns out this is a known problem with a simple solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In case that link ever dies, here’s the info:<\/p>\n

Quit MC and run the enableFontSmoothing script in the Applications > Utilities > Avid Utilities > AppleFontSmoothing<\/strong> folder. I think you just double-click on it for it to work. Then you can launch MC again.<\/p>\n

Or if you feel comfortable using the Terminal (and this is what I used successfully), quit MC and launch the Terminal. Then execute the following command:<\/p>\n

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hit Return and quit the Terminal, then relaunch MC. The value of 1 at the end should fix the issue (it did for me) but it was also suggested to try 2 or 3 if you still see an issue. Executing the command with 0 resets to the default.<\/p>\n

This is a permanent change (you don't have to re-execute the command on system startup) and should solve the font issue.<\/code><\/p>\n

Here’s what mine looks like afterward:<\/p>\n

\"CAPTION\"\"CAPTION\"
Nice smoothed fonts. Still somewhat crappy kerning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to Kevin Klimek on the Avid forums for posting this solution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first installed Avid Media Composer 6, I ran into an issue where the main Avid UI application font was horribly ugly. It was low rez, unsmoothed, and had awful kerning. Like this: It turns out this is a known problem with a simple solution. In case that link ever dies, here’s the info: … Continue reading “Avid Tip: Ugly fonts in Media Composer 6”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}