Openshot-qt: Only Bfont Can Be Used In Animated Titles

[bbacle]

Describe the bug
Animated Titles rendering

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to "Title - Animated Title"
2. Click on "Dissolving Text"
3. Input "Gilligan" for the "File Name"
4. Input "Gilligan's Island" in "Title"
5. Input "1.50" for the "Text Size"
6. Try changing Fonts in the "Font Name" (Nothing works there except the Bfont) - Why is this?
7. Slide the slider back to frame 1
8. Click on Render
9. The rendering only goes to frame 13 and stops (I left it on all night and it was still on frame 13 the next day)
10. I have gone back to version 2.4 and it rendered the animated title.

Expected behavior
A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.
I expected it to render the title for me so that I could put it into the timeline and export it to use in another video editing program that I use all the time.
It did not render in version 2.5 and in version 2.5.1 - it only worked in version 2.4.
Also I could not change to any other font (which, by the way, is very limited) - Can you not make it where it will accept any font that I have installed on my computer?
So there is the font issue as well as the rendering issue.
BTW...the font issue is on all versions 2.4 and forward.

System Details

• OpenShot Version: 2.5.1
• libopenshot Version: 0.2.5
• Platform: Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
• Processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
• Machine: AMD64
• Python version: 3.7.4
• Qt5 version: 5.12.4
• PyQt5 version: 5.12.3
• Qt Detected Languages: ['en-US']
• LANG Environment Variable:
• LOCALE Environment Variable:
• Daily Build Installed: http://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/releases/download/OpenShot-v2.5.1-release-candidate-1583026317-x86_64.exe

Log Files

• http://logs.openshot.org/730u3oip38wca5kvefjbez8pt74d319t/openshot-qt.zip
• http://logs.openshot.org/730u3oip38wca5kvefjbez8pt74d319t/libopenshot.zip

Exception / Stacktrace
No stacktrace found in log files

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[ferdnyc]

Yeah, that's a UI bug — those other choices shouldn't be there, as they're not functional. (I don't know if they _ever_ worked, TBH.) Pretending that the user is able to change the animated title font is simply misleading.

[bobonov]

1. The rendering only goes to frame 13 and stops (I left it on all night and it was still on frame 13 the next day)

Is the freeze at frame 13 due to the invalid filed in the gui?
I'm experiencing the same freeze at frame 13 with "Dissolving Text" effect.
I'm using:
Windows 10
Openshot 2.5.1, libopenshot 0.2.5
Blender 2.82
I see other users experiencing this problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenShot/comments/f5u61w/animated_titles_not_working/

[SuslikV]

@bobonov

Is the freeze at frame 13...?

this part is similar to: https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/issues/3268
that itself should be already solved in daily builds ( https://www.openshot.org/download/#daily ).

[ferdnyc]

Yeah, the Blender thread hanging after rendering a few frames was fixed by #3273, merged post-2.5.1 release on March 5.

[bobonov]

1. The rendering only goes to frame 13 and stops (I left it on all night and it was still on frame 13 the next day)

Tried the latest build and I can confirm now it works, it does not freeze.
But I get a wrong result, opened a new issue #3350

[MBB232]

Yeah, that's a UI bug — those other choices shouldn't be there, as they're not functional. (I don't know if they _ever_ worked, TBH.) Pretending that the user is able to change the animated title font is simply misleading.

@ferdnyc
According to this https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/670960
it seems to have worked at some point?

As a consequence of this, it seems no animated titles can be rendered for Asian languages. Because of a limitation in Blender/Bfont, they can not do that with Bfont
https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/issues/3494

https://developer.blender.org/T72829

Jan 1 2020, Harley Acheson (harley)
Unfortunately doing so does not automatically change the font used when inserting "Text" objects. Therefore, while your new text object is selected you must go to Properties / Object Data / Font and select a font that contains characters needed for your language. The default font (Bfont) does not contain any Korean characters. You can select the international font that comes with Blender (droidsans.ttf.gz) or any others on your computer. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are hoping to improve this in the future.

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