Beware when creating new title from existing one.

[Mike Velte]

Just tried it;
make a New title and close it. Reopen it and choose Title>New Title>Based on current title. Make changes and close it. Reopen one or both.
Works fine here.

[Dave Friend]

Andy,

I’ve been using this function heavily the last couple of days without any problems.

Go figure.

Dave

[Mike Cohen]

making a new file based upon old file, while clever of adobe, goes against every logic of how windows programs generally let you open and save files.
I don’t know what was so bad about how 1.5 on back worked. Save as (shift+ctrl+S) works good in every other Adobe program.

That’s my rant.

Mike

[Dave Friend]

I had a similar reaction at first, but now find I like the new behaviour. Basically “create from existing” automates the “save as…” function. What’s bad about that? Not having to deal with even more file management stuff is all right by me.

[Tim Kolb]

I was luke warm on it as well as I have clients where title files are being transferred and re-ued between projects and this system adds a step…

On making new titles…I just completed a project with about 120 titles and it seemed fine. The only problem I had was when I called one up and didn’t save as and had to go back and re-make titles…but that’s because I’m a dumbkopf (sp?), not because the software has an issue.

TimK,

Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net

[Ken Adolph]

I find this process very friendly so far.
My biggest complaint is that we produce a lot of series TV and I used to be able to create a new project for each episode and then copy all the standard titles into the new folder. I can’t do this anymore without exporting all the titles.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Tim Kolb]

[ken adolph] “My biggest complaint is that we produce a lot of series TV and I used to be able to create a new project for each episode and then copy all the standard titles into the new folder. I can’t do this anymore without exporting all the titles.”

But once you export them to some standard location once, don’t you just go and get them each time?

TimK,

Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net

[Ken Adolph]

No. Because these are basically the same supers in each episode but they are changed for each. Names, locations, times, etc. If I accessed them from a common location and changed them, then “graphic-1” would change in all episodes in PPro 1.5. So, I would copy all the supers to each separate episode folder. Now because they are imbedded in the project file I have to recreate them for each episode.
It’s a pain.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Tim Kolb]

Once they are imported, are they not “duplicated” inside the project?

I need to try this as I was guessing…I haven’t done it yet, but from the release notes my assumption was that the actual stand-alone files would be left alone and the titles would be “converted” to internal files…

…I need to test this out.

TimK,

Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

[Tim Kolb] ”
Once they are imported, are they not “duplicated” inside the project?

I need to try this as I was guessing…I haven’t done it yet, but from the release notes my assumption was that the actual stand-alone files would be left alone and the titles would be “converted” to internal files…

…I need to test this out.”

I just confirmed this…import a previously exported title and change it and check the source file on disk…it is unchanged.

Maybe the answer is to make some standardized “template” files that reside somwhere that are always imported into the project at the outset…

TimK,

Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net