Maybe this helps also: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/how-can-i-tell-what-font-this-is--109738/

Hi Kit. I thought for sure your post would fix my problem. However, a search of the text looking for anything close to "char" yields zero hits. Searched "fnil" too whatever that may be. The Word Pad veg file must be 50 pages long so it is quite a slog. Of course I searched font too.

Hi, search for the string (or part of it) you entered. And when you found it, look around it a bit if you find something similar to what I showed.

I mean the string you show in the video. Say you have a title "hello world", you should search for "hello"...

Word pad and note pad won't search the veg files for some reason. In the pic you can clearly see the word angle but the search says no matches. Bizarre.

upload fail too for some reason....

Grab a copy of Total commander. https://www.ghisler.com/download.htm

Use it's builtin viewer, I'm confident you'll find what you look for.

Thanks. I installed it and I have my veg file highlighted in red on the left hand side of the screen but I have no idea how to do anything else in this program or really what it does do.

Sorry, I grew up on Norton Commander then later DOS navigator in the good old DOS days. Such a tool is so much convenient and familiar to me that I can't even imagine it's new for someone. My bad.

Place the cursor on the file you want to do something with. Now it will be "view". Now press "F3" on the keyboard, or click the same button on the bottom. The "lister" loads the file. Press the number "3" on keyboard. That switches the lister to the hex view.

Press "F7" to bring up the "search for" dialog.

Enter the substring you want to search, then press enter. Press F3 for each subsequent search.

Great directions and I was able to put it into hex mode. That said I can't find any text. I will create a simple .veg with only one graphic and look at it and see what Total Commander says. Thanks.

So I did that. I created a new veg in 16 pro. Added 1 video track with one text media generator that said "Sample Text". Opened that in Total Commander and I searched and visually scanned but can't find the text. Can someone else recreate this? Can you see the text font in a simple one event veg file?

Please accept the following commentary with my profound desire to help you in the long run, not just with this situation.

I am ignorant. I'm blissfully ignorant in many areas of life and endeavor, but I'm not stupid. We're all ignorant about most things, but only some of us are stupid. I usually like to get my ignorance out in the open right away so we can all see what I don't know and attempt to learn what I need to know.

You've exposed your ignorance of basic system maintenance and you should learn how to create system image backups of your boot disk. Select a program like AOMEI Backupper or any other of your choice and start saving the image of your working system. Even if you decide later that it's time to wipe the whole drive and start over, you can always restore the old system image and use Vegas to determine which fonts you need to install when you put the new image back on the machine.

If you don't deploy a backup plan after this situation, then you're stupid.

@i am erikd Open the veg file in Windows Notepad. Then search for a single word of the text you had in the title. I made a veg file using the legacy text/title leaving the default 'Sample Text'. Then did a search on 'Sample' and this is part of the string showed up as "fcharset0 Arial;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\qc\b\fs144 Sample\par Text\par }". You see it clearly says 'Arial' font, which is what the default was.

The display in Notepad will look a bit different, but the results are the same. This forum will not allow me to post a screenshot at this time.

Hope this helps.....

Right Eagle Six! It works for Legacy Text. But all of my texts are what's called media generator texts! Very sadly, it doesn't look like it works in that situation. Huge problem for me.

SWAG

Perhaps, you could share your Vegas project file minus the media. Someone else just might have some of the fonts available on their system.

It's a long shot.

/SWAG  

@i am erikd specifically what title/text are you using?

For some reason my .png files won't upload. But my titles are specifically:

Video Media Generators: Vegas Titles and Texts.

If you right click on a timeline and choose "insert Text" you will get a media generator text.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1boKnmKWDwp_1SCAjheLZMQvnFkBpUB77

This is a link to an "untitled.veg" file that has two media generator texts in it.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Z3-SbznW0CJriLV0V6Ugvs6GHJulLPLj

This is a link to the actual project I am trying to find the fonts for in case someone wants to take a crack at it.

Regardles, thanks a ton for the help.

Erik

So if it is not the legacy, you need regexp, because the string seems to be stored as widestring.

Here:

I show you how to regexp this search, because you need to match as char only every second byte.

So if your string is "Hello world" search for "Hello". But it will be H.e.l.l.o, because of the encoding.

Totalcommanders builtin viewer supports regexp. Then when you found your string, look around a bit, use your intuition and try to guess the fontname.

@i am erikd OK, using the Vegas Titles and Texts, I changed the font from Verdana to Times New Roman. Notepad will not perform a search on this the .veg file (or at least I cannot get it to), so to perform a search it will require a different tool. However, because this project was very small, I did find the reference of the font I used following 'f0' and here is a part of that string, so Times New Roman as f0 and the original default font Verdana as f1.

"{ \ r t f 1 \ a n s i \ a n s i c p g 1 2 5 2 \ d e f f 0 { \ f o n t t b l { \ f 0 \ f n i l \ f c h a r s e t 0   T i m e s   N e w   R o m a n ; } { \ f 1 \ f n i l \ f c h a r s e t 0   V e r d a n a ; } }"

Either a time consuming read of your .veg file, or find a tool that will provide a search, should solve the font mystery.

There you go @klt provided the tool solution to find your font

I’m in Israel and my 17 hour day has ended so I will pick up with this tomorrow morning. Very hopeful this trick works. Special thanks to those who offered real help. Some people make lots of assumptions and aren’t shy about posting them.

@i am erikd

"Haettenschweiler" as a fontname sounds familiar to you?