VEGAS Pro miserably failed to support Indian Fonts: Reg

seetharamaiah-velicheti wrote on 9/16/2025, 2:11 AM

1. Text Engine Differences

Vegas Pro uses an older, limited text engine (based on Windows GDI) in its Titles & Text generator.

GDI doesn’t fully support complex text shaping required for Indic scripts (ligatures, conjunct letters, matras repositioning).

As a result, when you paste Hindi/Telugu/Tamil text, it either breaks, shows boxes, or displays incorrectly.

Adobe Premiere Pro uses Adobe’s modern text engine (based on HarfBuzz/ICU), which supports Unicode complex script rendering.

This allows it to correctly display and animate Indic and other world scripts.

2. Unicode & OpenType Issues

Indian languages require OpenType shaping tables (GSUB/GPOS features) to correctly render conjuncts (e.g., क्ष in Hindi, or compound letters in Telugu).

Vegas Pro doesn’t process these shaping rules—it just pastes characters one by one.

Premiere Pro applies full Unicode text shaping before rendering, so it looks natural.

My question is why Magix Vegas Pro creators are not bothering about this and compelling us to depend on some other software for writing Indian Fonts like Telugu, Hindi etc. In this area, besides Adobe Premier, even smaller software like Filmora etc., work very well with Indian Fonts. It is very horrible situation that Magix Vegas Pro creators don't work on this. They boast of so many upgrades but why they fail to update their older, limited text engine in its Titles and Text generator? They only release version after version by some improvements in color grading, smooth playback etc. Very bad on the part of Magix Vegas Pro.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 9/16/2025, 3:58 AM

A developer stated they are being scoping now for a new titler for VEGAS. link

Why has this not been a priority? Reworking the video engine has been the main focus for the past few years to more fully take advantage of modern GPUs and improve stability. This is what users have been asking for. Text is a priority but not the highest priority.

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