change style of all titles on timeline at once?
by Jiri Fiala (stooovie)
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May 12, 2008 at 8:03:55 am
Hello, is there a way to change style of all titles on a timeline at once? I need to add an outline to all subtitle clips, but there is a LOT of them and manually changing every single one of them would drive me mad.
Re: change style of all titles on timeline at once? by Andy Benfield on May 12, 2008 at 12:50:40 pm
I don't think you can do what you want to do.
You could make your outline in a separate title and add it on a different layer, then copy and paste onto all the places the titles are.
Re: change style of all titles on timeline at once? by Jiri Fiala on May 12, 2008 at 12:52:30 pm
I thought so... I tried to workaround this with black background but client doesn't like it. Oh well, it's not THAT much work fortunately. Thanks anyway!
Re: change style of all titles on timeline at once? by Jon Barrie on May 13, 2008 at 10:31:17 am
Hi Jiri,
I seem to have begun a vendetta with Andy. He claims to be an advanced editor. Good for him.
I think I might have some ideas to approach your issue.
1. Add an effect like: Radial Shadow, set the attributes so the opacity is 100% and the amount is small and tight with zero distance. That will give you a nice black "edge" then copy the effect once you have the settings looking good. Select all the title clips in the timeline (I hope they are all on a dedicated layer) then paste attributres. Done.
2. This will take longer, but if you need to adjust the titles in some way that is not as simple as color, (I would use a tine for colour correction/hue saturation effect then copy and past attributes for that too), but you need to say change the font type or something that can't be solved in a simple effect based way.
- You can open one of the titles and make changes to the text in this one, font, size, colour, outline, fill type - whatever. Make sure you can see the Style Panel, click on the text to show its bounding box. Click on the little triangle in the top right of the Styles panel, select new style. This will put the style you just made into it's own box on the bottom of the list. Close the titler window. Open another title. Select All (Ctrl+A) move to the bottom of your title style listing and select the one you just made. All the Selected Text boxes will take on the font style. Repeat to all titles. It's not that painful.
Have fun, I'm working on a 3 hour documentary that had to have this process used for about 50 titles. I'd love to see a feature to change all title fonts, I prefer to make my titles in PSD format then edit original and select all the layers in the PSD, change the font once they all have it, Save it. Go back to PPro - watch all the titles update. Sexy.
- Jon ;)
How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Re: change style of all titles on timeline at once? by Jiri Fiala on May 13, 2008 at 10:57:11 am
Thanks Jon, your tip No. 2 is exactly what I did this morning. I always create lower thirds and graphics in Photoshop/AE, but this time, it was simple subtitles for another language.
