Hi,
I bought the pro version recently and this is the first thing I noticed when I started to work, It doesn't accept text from the keyboard if I switch to other language than English!
I'm referring to the "Draw / Insert Text" menu function.
This is too important for me (which unfortunately I didnt' try on the demo version) so I consider this a serius bug -not just a missing feature.
Nowadays almost all applications, even as simple as Notepad, in any OS, accept input in many languages, so it shouldn't be missing from a complex and sophisticated application like Anime Studio Pro especially when it is intended for the production of artistic work!
I found a workaround by copy-pasting the text from... Notepad, but that makes things unnecessarily more difficult, decreasing the overal usability of Anime Studio Pro, so I hope it will be corrected soon.
English-only text input from keyboard!
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synthsin75
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Copying and pasting is... difficult? I much prefer writing the text in another application till it's just right THEN pasting it into whatever I need. In most cases the text is already in something else. I wouldn't even want to spend the time typing again if I can copy and paste.
I do this constantly with other applications; pasting text from MS Word into a photoshop document. Pasting text from the web into an email. It takes... seconds.
It is unfortunate that AS doesn't support direct input of unicode text but it isn't the end of the world. I have several "high end" applications that absolutely won't do it. I rarely use the text tool in AS. Unless you use it 50% of the time it hardly seems to be a huge deal breaker.
-vern
I do this constantly with other applications; pasting text from MS Word into a photoshop document. Pasting text from the web into an email. It takes... seconds.
It is unfortunate that AS doesn't support direct input of unicode text but it isn't the end of the world. I have several "high end" applications that absolutely won't do it. I rarely use the text tool in AS. Unless you use it 50% of the time it hardly seems to be a huge deal breaker.
-vern
First of all, it's a bit naive to assume that everyone will do the same kind of work and in the same way as you are, especially in a general software application.
Second of all, I'm not referring to the difficulty of the task of copy-pasting itself (of course not), but to the unnecessary breaking of the work flow in two parts and in two different applications, when the most efficient way is to use just one for this simple task.
To explain it a bit, the sort of animations I'm doing (almost all of them), has to have some animated text explaining or pointing to some objects, in the scene. The text is closely related to the animation (it's not subtitles) and it is best created along with the animation. Using a different animating application for the text is out of the question -not to say ...masochistic!
So writing the full text first to another document is almost impossible because I'm developing the animation and the text as a whole. Having a small window opened in the screen with notepad is OK but it takes space, it distracts and simply it's not the most efficient way to work!.
And I'm not just using it 50% of the time, more like 100% of the time for this (long) project which was the reason I bought AS Pro in the first place.
I think that the developers should think globally when designing an application -if they do distribute their applications globally!
Not to be missunderstood, I like AS Pro, I just thought I should let the developers know of what I consider important as a customer.
And BTW, the customer is always right!
Second of all, I'm not referring to the difficulty of the task of copy-pasting itself (of course not), but to the unnecessary breaking of the work flow in two parts and in two different applications, when the most efficient way is to use just one for this simple task.
To explain it a bit, the sort of animations I'm doing (almost all of them), has to have some animated text explaining or pointing to some objects, in the scene. The text is closely related to the animation (it's not subtitles) and it is best created along with the animation. Using a different animating application for the text is out of the question -not to say ...masochistic!
So writing the full text first to another document is almost impossible because I'm developing the animation and the text as a whole. Having a small window opened in the screen with notepad is OK but it takes space, it distracts and simply it's not the most efficient way to work!.
And I'm not just using it 50% of the time, more like 100% of the time for this (long) project which was the reason I bought AS Pro in the first place.
I think that the developers should think globally when designing an application -if they do distribute their applications globally!
Not to be missunderstood, I like AS Pro, I just thought I should let the developers know of what I consider important as a customer.
And BTW, the customer is always right!
Fair enough. Just a warning though, lots of vector text in AS will slow down performance.
Another option would be to do more planning ahead of time. Do a storyboard, determine what text is needed for each scene or shot. Write ALL the text in note pad or whatever. Have that document open and each time you need to add text switch to note pad (I think it's option+tab or alt+tab to switch applications) and just copy that section and paste it in.
-vern
Another option would be to do more planning ahead of time. Do a storyboard, determine what text is needed for each scene or shot. Write ALL the text in note pad or whatever. Have that document open and each time you need to add text switch to note pad (I think it's option+tab or alt+tab to switch applications) and just copy that section and paste it in.
-vern
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synthsin75
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AS is not meant as a single 'do all' solution. For just about any animation you will need perhaps Papagayo, a sound editor, and maybe a video editor/compositor and image editor (depending on the style and need). I don't think adding Notepad into the mix is all that terrible.
Since the AS text doesn't do multiple lines, I find it much easier to use an image of text from Photoshop or something.
I'm not saying your opinion isn't valid. It is.
Since when is the customer right?! I must have missed that memo. 
Since the AS text doesn't do multiple lines, I find it much easier to use an image of text from Photoshop or something.
I'm not saying your opinion isn't valid. It is.
Since when is the customer right?! I must have missed that memo.