Video Pointers

Red Prince wrote on 2/12/2017, 1:42 PM

I tried to post this as a reply in another thread, but it failed to post there. So, here goes:

Inspired by the above thread, I created a VideoPointers font, which contains various arrows, plus a callout and a circle. These can be added to a VP video using the legacy Text generator, which allows you to use any font, color and transparency, as well as place it anywhere on the video.

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dxdy wrote on 2/12/2017, 1:57 PM

Cool. Thank you. I just had to double click on the .otf file to install to Windows, and they are there.

john_dennis wrote on 2/12/2017, 2:01 PM

Thank you for moving this subject forward.

Marco. wrote on 2/12/2017, 2:18 PM

Great, thanks!

Red Prince wrote on 2/12/2017, 2:53 PM

My pleasure. 😎

xberk wrote on 2/12/2017, 3:29 PM

WOW .. Thanks RP .. They work with ProType too and are more flexible using ProType. This is cool. I can make use of these! Just need to create a keyboard guide so I know which key goes with which symbol.

Red Prince wrote on 2/12/2017, 4:08 PM

When I started developing it, I was placing left-pointing arrows at the capitals letters, and the same arrows, just pointing right at the lower case letters. I placed the most basic left-pointing arrow of differing length at digits 0-4, then the same pointing to the right at 5-9.

Later, I took what seemed to be most usable length of each arrow type, made them point up and assigned them to letters V-Z, and the same pointing down to v-z.

Then I made the same to point to upper right and placed them to !"#$%, then to point to upper left, assigned to &'()*, then lower right to +,-./ (all of those are in successive order in ASCII and in ISO8859-1 as well as in Unicode, but unfortunately not on the keyboard), then lower-right to :;<=>, then added a circle (which can be used to highlight the cursor) and assigned it to @ (which kind of looks like a circle), and finally a callout, which I assigned to the question mark.

My font design software (fontforge) uses the ISO 8859 and Unicode order for the encoding, and since I was originally only using letters and digits, it seemed an easy layout, but when I added the angled things, I had to use the various punctuation, so I just copied and pasted the five vertical arrows into successive ASCII/ISO/Unicode fields and rotated them (and did whatever other adjustments needed to be done, such as character width and other technicalities).

At any rate, I hope this will help you find the various images faster.

Adam

xberk wrote on 2/12/2017, 7:21 PM

Here's a start on a chart. Needs work. Thanks again Adam. Nice work.

NickHope wrote on 2/12/2017, 9:30 PM

Thanks Adam! I've added a link to this post from my comment on that post so more people can find this.

james-ollick wrote on 2/13/2017, 1:57 PM

Thank you Adam. Has anyone tried Wingdings 3? I will give it a try later this week. 😊

Sirio wrote on 2/14/2017, 4:01 AM

Thank you.
For those that want more, just watch here:
http://www.dafont.com/it/search.php?q=arrow

Red Prince wrote on 2/15/2017, 9:57 PM

I should point out that I also have a small list of additional arrows in the SVG format on OpenClipart.org, where you can download them from, either in the original SVG format or in the PNG format in any resolution.

I made all of those myself, some by drawing them by hand, most, though, by writing the SVG code directly. I have released them all to the public domain (the web site only accepts clip art the author has released to PD), so you can use them (and anything else from the web site) for anything you want.

Adam