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Adding 200 captions. A quick way?
I am working on a photo montage, and all of the pans/zooms etc… is finished. I now have to add a different caption to EACH of the 200+ photos (I didn’t add the text to the photo itself b/c I want the photo moving, and the text stationary.) The captions will all be something to the effect of “Bill Smith with wife Katie, son Butch, and dog Rover.”
Is there any way for me to import or create these captions quickly? It would be great if I could just create 200 different .doc files or something, and just import them as Titles. Is that possible? Or am I going to have to be creating all these captions in the Adobe Title Designer?
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You can use Adobe Photoshop and simply rename the file name to create a different subtitle. Just remember to save it with an alpha channel.
Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
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I guess now is as good of a time as any to ask.. What in the world is an alpha channel?
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You could put the above mentioned Photoshop files into one folder. Name the files in such a way that they will be in the order used = a1, a2 etc, then import the whole folder. Automate to the time line in a track above your photos. Trim / lengthen as required. BUT, it takes as long to type in Photoshop as it does to type in the titler. And real titles do not need to be imported. Each import of a Photoshop file will require you to respond to the layer and footage prompts. Again, name the titles in the order they will be used and put them in their own bin so that they can also be automated to the timeline.
re alpha channel, anything typed on a transparent layer automatically has an alpha channel that will allow the video to show thorough the title.
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Another way to do this that would be really cool is to do it with Encore and make them Subtitles. If the pictures change at a given interval, say every 6 seconds, then you could create a text file with the following format
1 00;00;00;00 00;00;07;00 Baby with Dad
2 00;00;07;01 00;00;14;01 Little Boy with MomDo this in notepad and save it as a txt file. Then in encore you can import subtitles and it will lay them out for you on your timeline.
Pros: The user can turn them on or off.
Cons: You might not have Encore.Hope this helps
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