QT 7 Pro Text Track Font Tag Change Makes Text Disappear 1

[ashultz]

This worked in QT 6 Pro but QT 7 Pro seems to be broken. Anybody have any ideas? Is there a way to report a problems like this to Apple?

Here's the problem:
I am using Quicktime 7 Pro to create a text track that I want to add to an existing movie. Any font except for the default Geneva font inside the FONT tag seems to make the text disappear.

Things worked fine in QT 6 Pro when I use Futura for the font but when I try to use the exact same text track .txt file in QT 7 Pro I can see no text. If I change the FONT tag to use Geneva the text reappears. I haven't found another font that works in there yet.

I'm using OSX 10.3.9 and QT 7.0.1 Pro.

Here's a simple text track file that will work but will break with the font change. QT Pro created this file so it's something that SHOULD work, right? Change the FONT from Geneva to something else (e.g. Futura or Helvetica) to break it.
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{Qttext}{font:Geneva}{plain}{size:12}{textColor: 65535, 65535, 65535}{backColor: 0, 0,0}{justify:center}{timeScale:30}{width:160}{height:48}{timeStamps:absolute}{language:0}{textEncoding:0}
[00:00:00.00]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Test Slide 1
[00:00:02.00]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Test Slide 2
[00:00:04.00]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Test Slide 3
[00:00:06.00]
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[BiPlatformal]

Hi,
I inserted your text/tags, changed font to Courier and it worked. I am using Tiger 10.4.2 and QT Pro 7.0.1. Maybe Tiger fixed the problem.

Maybe you can help me. I have text/tags that looks just like yours, but the counter numbers show up in the text box in QT. I am trying to make a bigger version to be seen in a large classroom. Could this be the problem?
Any help appreciated.

Text is below...

{QTtext}{font:Geneva}{plain}{size:40}{textColor: 65535, 65535, 65535}{backColor: 0, 0, 0}{justify:center}{timeScale:1000}{width:500}{height:350}{timeStamps:absolute}{language:0}{textEncoding:0}
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Beethoven - Fourth Movement - Ode to Joy
[00:00:05.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Low strings – very softly – crescendos & decrescendos
[00:00:50.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Higher strings take the melody countermelody by bassoon
[00:1:40.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Sweet strings – basses rest
[00:2:30.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Brass & ww – melody, punctuated by strings & percussion
[00:03:18.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Beethoven – an excerpt
[00:03:23.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}
[00:03:25.000]

 

[ashultz]

I think the problem comes from the timecode format. You have two of the timecodes formatted with the seconds as a single digit and I think they need to be double digits.

[00:1:40.000] and [00:2:30.000] need to be [00:01:40.000] and [00:02:30.000], respectively.

 

[BiPlatformal]

You are exactly right! It works now!
This is just my second day of working with text boxes and QT. I have so much to learn. Thank you so much.
Did you solve your problem yet?