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rs170a wrote on 5/18/2010, 2:41 PM
I've had that happen to me several times recently and the only fix I've found is to do what you did.
Sure hope someone has a cure for this annoying little problem.

Mike
Randini wrote on 5/18/2010, 2:56 PM
Mike, exactly! I once had to render an entire project again because it had a missing apostrophe.
R0cky wrote on 5/18/2010, 3:14 PM
Is it font specific? Some fonts don't seem to work very well and are extremely slow to render.
BudWzr wrote on 5/18/2010, 3:45 PM
Apostrophe is an illegal character in database fields. When the OLE text is dropped in, it gets parsed out.

The reason it works manually is because it's been "isolated" in the field using the appropriate syntax.
farss wrote on 5/18/2010, 4:16 PM
"Apostrophe is an illegal character in database fields"

It's not illegal, it's a delimiter. If you don't want them to be read as a delimiter there's ways to ensure they're not interpreted as such. Mr O'Reilly should not loose his apostrophe or I'd loose my head.
Bob.
Former user wrote on 5/18/2010, 4:27 PM
It's because the apostrophe (and quotes as well) from most word processing programs aren't the same as "standard" characters -- they are "smart" characters with their own character hex code(s) and won't reproduce correctly within the text media clip. You will have to replace it with a "standard" character by just typing it over within the editor interface -- as you point out.
BudWzr wrote on 5/18/2010, 4:54 PM
Bob

Soooo, it's not illegal, you just can't do it unless you work around it. Hmmm..welll..OK.

Well, maybe illegal is too strong, maybe unwise or risky is better. After all, text fields are OK for apostrophe so long as it's not caught in a concatenation that produces a GUID.

Maybe an apostrophe was the cause of the videos getting mixed up in that mysterious bug.