Japanese Language is not working

[regfrog]

Hi

I tried to send my japanese friend a video so i wanted to write some japanese in to the video but i can't do it.

Does VIDEO STUDIO 9 not support the japanese language??
or what i have to do that is working, there must be a plug in with solve this problem right???

I know i can make a picture and after insert it but this will make me crazy


Thanks for your Help
Andrea

[sjj1805]

Writing this from my works machine so cannot access the main Ulead website due to a firewall.

If Japanese isn't supported, then you could prepare the text in a photo editing program such as photo impact or photoshop and save the text as still images. Choose a background colour that is not in your video. Place the still image on the overlay track and use the chroma key to remove the background.

Hope this helps, that is if Japanese isn't supported which it may or may not be.

Steve J

[regfrog]

Thanks for your help.

I saw that this programm is also seld in japan.
So there must be way to write japanese right??
does nowbody have a plug in to write japanese??

Andrea

[Glennmizu]

Hello.
If you have windows XP it is very easy. I live in Japan and use an American Computer.
All you have to do is select Japanese as the main language. Off hand I can't remember where I did it but I could do it in only a short time.

Before I selected Japanese I could only get strange letters. After selecting Japanese as the main language then in VS9 you click the fonts and choose one of the Japanese fonts which suddenly appearer after changing your system.
It makes no change to your computer having the Japanese. All English programs stay in English but any Japanese programs that you may have are now in Japanese and not some strange language.

I just changed the language of my Sony Vaio US model to Japanese a week ago. Now I can add Japanese to my website and to VS9.
Cheers

Glenn Waters
www.glennwaters.com

[Ken Berry]

Glen -- I assume you mean you have to change the setting to Japanese as the main language _of the computer_, as opposed to the main language of Video Studio...? If so, did you change that in Control Panel > Regional and Language Settings > Languages > Add?

But thanks for the handy tip. As you may know, we also get the occasional request here from people wanting to add Chinese characters, and I myself have occasionally wanted to know how I might add Cyrillic letters to some of my VS projects. Now I have something more to play around with. I had added Russian as one of my working languages in Microsoft Office 2003, but that of course only affected the programs in that suite, and not others like VS. So now I'll try your method...

[Glennmizu]

Hello Ken ,
That is correct go to

Control panels/regional and Language settings. You need to do 2 things.

First open Languages/then open Details
And choose Japanese.
In “Default input language” in my computer it says English (United States) -US
When you open the fold down window by clicking the tab on the right it says

Japanese-Japanese and under that it says
Japanese - Japanese impute system (MS-IEM 2002)

The box for installed services says
EN English (US)
Keyboard.
US

JP Japanese
Keyboard
. Japanese
. Japanese impute System (MS-IME2002)

Having done that next close the window and on the Regional and Language Options window click
Advanced.

It says at the top
select a language to match the language version of the non-Unicode programs you want to use.

Open the fold down window and choose Japanese. Click Apply.

That’s it now you can write Japanese in VS9 or other programs.

When you want to use Japanese. Now on your screen or toolbar there will be an Icon with EN. (English) just click it and select Japanese Then under the "A" mark click and choose the kind of japanese you want. Hiragana, Katakana or Kanji.

Cheers

Glenn Waters
www.glennwaters.com