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apply font change to multiple titles
I know I’ve done this before, but I can’t figure it out, nor can I find and easy solution in manual or discussions—thanks for your help—
I’ve got about 400 title clips in an fcp sequence, as subtitles. I want to change ALL of their fonts, and ALL of their font sizes and colors. How do I do this?
In the ‘paste attributes’ window there doesn’t seem to be a way.
It CAN’T be hard…and yet….
thanks a lot,
Cousin Steve
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I’m getting really scared that this is impossible. I thought I’d done it before, now I am doubting….please someone tell me I don’t have to spend a day making my yellow subtitles gray…..oy oy oy
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I didn’t say anything because I don’t think it can be done except one by one…
Shane
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how COULD you!? I come to you for help and you shatter my dreams….
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it CANT be done in FCP,
but it CAN be done outside of FCP via XML.if you are into coding you can try to do it manually:
here is a snip from Andreas Keil writing in the FCP-L:—————————————
Export the sequence as XML,
open in TextEditor, replace all “Lucida Grande” with the font of your choice,
save and re-import into FCP.
Do some tests with a few titles first.
—————————————back to me:
dont know how you;d go about finding the font size and colour in there.
it’s probably possible, but it;s certainly not my area of expertise, so my next suggestion is TRAFFIC.
https://www.xmedit.com/
it;s a node based editor that uses XML from FCP to do exactly the sort of thing you need.nick
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Nick’s right. XML is the only way to do it. Here’s how I’d find the right attribute for your titles in the XML if you’re having trouble finding your color.
1. Take one of your titles and place it alone in a new sequence.
2. Duplicate tht sequene, then go in and change the color of the title in the new (duplicate) sequence to what you want the title color to become. Name them both something recognizable, like white and yellow for the text color.
3. Export each one to XML. Then open both XML files in TextEdit and compare. They’ll be relatively short, and the only thing different will be the color attribute (and for an added bonus, the new sequencs XML will have the exact color you want described in it, so you don’t have to guess and check with a whole bunch of XML imports).Two things to consider. When you export an XML and then re-import it, all the clips in the imported timeline are considered new master clips – that is their affliate connectons to footage in the browser are severed. If you plan to keep editing later and/or if this master/affiliate cnnection is important to you for organization (i.e. being able fo hit shift+F on a clip in the timeline to reveal its master in the browser), you might want to only export your titles to XML. Then make your changes, import the title XML and move them back to your original sequence. Master/affiiae connections aren’t really that important for video generators, but the can be with media.
Also, when doing your replace in XML, you might want to redundantly search and replace more than you need to. This wouldn’t be too impotant if you were searching for ‘Times New Roman,’ but you’re searching for a color, and the last thing you want to do is accidentally change all your white bursts to yellow bursts while tryng to change your title color. So, if the XML says ‘Font Color = White,’ search for that entire line and replae it with ‘Font Color = Yellow,’ rather than just doing a search for ‘white’ and replacing with ‘yellow.’ If you have opening titles and subtitles, maybe you want to search for more to isolate just the subtitles.
Good luck,
Ben
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great idea from Ben.
an XML file contains ALL the information about whatever you were pointing at at the time.
a whole project would contain a UNIVERSE of information (ok, slight exaggeration, but you get the idea)
a whole sequence would still be “too much information!”
so a text only sequence makes great sense.
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Great suggestion from Ben. Hopefully you haven’t used the Boris generators to make your subtitles, because the bad news is they can’t be accessed in the XML.
Martin
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Great suggestion from Ben. Hopefully you haven’t used the Boris generators to make your subtitles, because the bad news is they can’t be accessed in the XML.
Martin
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Thank you so much for your detailed responses! I will give it a shot. It looks pretty involved, but it’s something I should know how to do. Much appreciation.
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OK, I tried this method, and I think I’m doing everything right. But when I import the modified XML file into FCP and open the sequence, the changes I’ve made are not reflected. It looks just like it did before I exported it. I’m gonna keep messing with it, but any suggestions? Thanks very much.
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