• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Can i change the default length of a text insert?

  Posted by Noam Osband on November 28, 2011 at 1:19 am

  I want to change the default length of text. I’m using keystrokes to insert text into the timeline and I want text inserts that are 3 seconds rather than 5 seconds long. how can i change the default for this? is there a way?

  Jerry Hofmann replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jerry Alto

  November 28, 2011 at 1:36 am

  Noam- The way I do it is to build a basic text object for a project with all the attributes I want then copy and paste into the browser. When I need an additional text object in the timeline I copy from the browser to the timeline and retype the words. It keeps all the attributes including the duration.

  HTH,
  Jerry

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  Jerry Hofmann

  November 28, 2011 at 2:23 am

  Change the still image duration preference in the User Preferences to be the length of whatever you’d like a new text file to be…

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