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Copy/Paste text position
I have several dozen text layers I would like to update the position to the same y coordinates. I’ve tried selecting them all and changing the y value, but it only changes the displayed layer, not all of them. Any way to do this, or am I stuck changing them all one at a time?
Although, it goes against my OCD, I was able to move the text layer to the proper place, then select all the titles and paste attributes to get the desired result.
Still, seems like there should be a way to set the position to multiple text layers.
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Agreed. A long sanding unexpected behavior. Let the FCP team know. The squeaky wheel will get the grease.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
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Hi both
You can send me a few Euros thru PayPal for this crash course in FCP basics 🤣
A text layer (text box) is part of a Motion Title, Motion Generator etc. Any Motion Template can contain one or more of those. Each of them does have it’s own (base) position which can be changed individually. This can be done in the Inspector’s Text pane or sometimes in the Inspector’s Title pane. Since every developer can do whatever (s)he wants there is no common sense how and where position is addressed – means no batch change.
And that’s a good thing. imagine you got a title with 2 text entries: Headline, Subline. Setting both entries to the same position would render everything to garbage.
BUT you are probably not talking about text layers, you are talking about titles or generators. These are assets same as video (or video/audio) clips. To move, scale, distort or whatever a video clip you would use the Inspector’s Video pane. You can apply those settings to 1000s at a time.
So why not use that with titles/generators???
My idea is to pay me 10 cent for each title/generator you batch moved this way 😂😎
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