modify all text titles at once?

I have a video with text titles. Is there any way to change properties of all titles at once?

Sorry for not making it clear.

I have subtitles on one track which are simple text. Suppose I want to increase the font size or change font type - how can I change them all at once?

"If all your titles are on one track, you can lasso and apply the attributes all at once." - so does this work for my question?

If so, how can I do lasso on FCP? Thanks for the help.

[Ethan Chan] "Suppose I want to increase the font size or change font type - how can I change them all at once? "

Take a look at Traffic from xmedit.com. It's made just for this kind of thing.

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Thank you so much!
I had been learning FX scripting (not a bad pursuit!) to attempt this task. I was unable to find a way to modify all 400 + texts to change the font size & position with scripting
XML made it very easy.
I exported as a XML file.
I did a global search and replace in that XML file for the first parameter, and replaced it with the second.

find <value>28</value
replace with <value>43</value>

find <vert>0.375</vert>
replace with <vert>0</vert>

I found the position was in a different number format than I had expected. I made the desired changes to the first text, than searched in the XML for the parameters associated with that text.

I saved the XML file, and re-opened it as a new project.
I still had lots of cleaning up to do, but it will take MUCH less time than opening 400+ text slugs and changing them.

I am captioning IMAX films for the Fleet Science Center in San Diego.
They play back as a quicktime file with a protools session.

hi~~i have the same problem... when you mention re-open it in a new project... what does that mean?
i export xml, find all the font and changed them, saved it. then?
i import the new xml in the original project, but nothing happens. the font remains the same... please, help!

make sure you save the XML file as an RTF, not a TXT. That should do it.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that did not work at all. If you save it in a RTF format it crashes Final Cut. Can you give me more specifics? I'm using Dreamweaver to do the find and replace so that two spaces become one line break. That is because of the export bug that Final Cut 7 has.

Any advice?

Eric Bowman

[John Young] "I'm not sure what the problem is -
The file should be in RTF, but must end in XML.
I am suspicious of using dreamweaver too why not just TextEdit?
1. export XML file.
2. Open in TextEdit.
3. Do search and replace.
4. Save as an RTF document but replace .TXT or .RTF with .XML. Ignore any warnings about the file being unusable. You can always export it again, or re-name it...
6. Import XML file into FCP.

I suggest extreme caution in editing don't add any extra line feeds or characters.
Good luck."


Thanks for the reply. I got around to trying this again on another project, and your suggestion does not work for me. First of all you can't convert the FCP created XML document to Rich Text then save it as a XML file again inside of TextEdit. Just tried it and it said you have to use RTF as the extension. So I did that and just renamed the file to XML and when you import it in Final Cut it pops up an error dialog that reads,"XML Translation was aborted due to a critical error".

I really don't see how Dreamweaver would muck with the file either as it's just a text editor like TextEdit with more bells and whistles. But heck, I'm willing to pop this thing open on XP using Notepad (or any text editor for that matter) if it truly remedies the problem.

I ALWAYS get two spaces for line breaks when I export from FCP version 7.0.2. It's simple to put the line break in the XML document using a simple find and replace, but I can not figure out how to get FCP to read those in as an actual line break. I really thought you were onto something there with the RTF suggestion. :) I'm still thinking it's just a bug with FCP 7.0.2.

If you have any additional suggestions I'm all ears. I'd love to find a fix for this problem.

Eric Bowman

That is EXACTLY what I did too. You didn't save as RTF either if you were getting the TXT extension. If I save in RTF format it never imports into Final Cut. You are using version 6 too, I truly think that's why it's working. I have tried numerous times and it never brings in the line breaks. The funny thing is that the line breaks are there inside the Viewer Window > Controls > Text Parameters area. But in the sequence and the canvas it does not show the line breaks, which is where it matters the most.

This has to be a bug to my knowledge. All I can say is do NOT UPGRADE to 7.0.2. I think version 7.0 and 7.0.1 are fine, it's just the latest greatest update that broke the XML export/import feature.

If you can get this to work on someone's machine using 7.0.2 I'll buy you a case of beer. :)

Eric Bowman

The best answer is select all the text on your time line nest item it and hold control press the nest item, then it will open in viewer then go the motion change the size of it...Happy rep me .