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change style of all titles on timeline at once?
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.
Thanks!
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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.Andy
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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!
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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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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.
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I’m thinking about playing around with the ExtendScript Toolkit and trying to create a script that will do this – but, as I’ve been a programmer for 15 or so years this is new to me so, it may take a while and I may not have the time.. I’m guessing though, that someone else may have already created a script for such a thing..
Either way, this is a feature that would really be useful if it were included!!!
If / when I get the script done (or if I find someone else’s) I’ll come back and post what I’ve found or created!
— Kevin Dearing
–KTFA
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I was able to change all my titles on my timeline from black to white once. I added a quick color correction effect to one of the title text, I played with the exposure to get the text from black to white, saved the effect as preset. Then luckily all my titles card were on the top three tracks on my timeline so I selected the whole three tracks (drag mouse from beginning to end). Then I dropped my preset effect to my selected tracks and then all my titles in the timeline were changed from black to white.
You can do that with any effect that you want ( I played with the color wheel and hue to change the color too)
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It would be really nice to be able to define each item in a title, kind of like CSS (actually it would be fine by me if it could just reference a CSS file) so that you can change everything all in one swoop later. I set it up as H1, so if I change font, color, size, etc in H1, then anything with H1 gets changed. This would be amazing if You could use the same kind of formatting in all the Adobe software as well. That way, if I’m working in Illustrator as well and change some settings there, it would also update my After Effects sequence, my premiere title, and my photoshop image all at once.
Some genius wanted Comic Sans for their titles? AHHHHH, but I talked them into Avenir instead. Good for me.Thanks for the tips. I’m learning Premiere and it makes me so angry how many bits of it are so poorly designed. It seems like every time I look for something that seems like it should be easy to do, I find out you can’t do it.
I was actually looking to see how to change the default time for titles (mine are already created) and I learned you can’t. Although, I found a workaround, but it sucks. Open title, create title from title (after you’ve changed the time in preferences) and use that new one instead. Well THAT’s terrible.I was also hoping you could select multiple objects and just use rate stretch on them, but that only rate stretches the last item in your selection instead of doing what you’d expect and stretching them all as one selection. I wasn’t too hopeful with that one though because AE doesn’t do that either. :/
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It’s kind of remarkable that the original post is from 2008, and EIGHT YEARS LATER people are still griping about how hard it is to apply the same styling to a bunch of titles at once.
Now, I am the first person to start Adobe-bashing at the slightest pretext, but in this case, I’ll share my workflow for how to make your subtitling task easier if you have a ton of subtitles to plug in. This should be the practice from the outset. If you are like me, though, you may not have this option – you might be picking up in the middle of someone else’s work…
This applies to single-line subtitles, but you can make another template for a double-line subtitle. Make sure to give the double-lined title master some sort of a unique identifying marker – so if you call your regular titles “Title 1”, call the double ones “Title 1d” or “Title 1#” or something…that way you don’t get confused which ones are single-line and which ones are double line, while still preserving sequential order.
1) Create your first master subtitle – align it vertically however you want in the lower third.
2) Center-align the text inside the text box. That way, when you paste new text into a duplicate, it doesn’t get all out of whack horizontally.
3) Now, horizontally align the text using the positioning alignment of the text box itself.
4) At this point, you can safely start duplicating the master title and pasting the new text in there. Notice that you now do not have to re-align anything to anything else. You’ve already done the work in your master title.
5) Now all that’s left for you to do is just copy-paste hundreds of lines of dialogue into hundreds of these duplicates. 🙂
I hope this can save someone a headache or two.
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