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Changing a title across sequences in the same project
I recently migrated from FCP to Premiere, and I have been very happy about the change. However, the titler functions very differently from the text generator in FCP, and I have noticed that if I duplicate a sequence in Premiere, and change the title in one sequence, the changes are applied to that title across all sequences. This is a bit annoying, since the videos that I work with are originally edited with captions in one language, then localized into 10 other languages. Meaning the content and edit of the actual video remain constant, while only the text of the titles is changed. I would like to be able to duplicate the sequence within the same project, and have the titles of each sequence operate independently from each other … Is this possible? Up to now I have been creating an individual project for each language, but ideally all the sequences would be contained in the same project …
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Each title block is discrete. If you use the same title from your bin in 10 sequences and change that title it will change across all sequences just like you’ve experienced.
If you clone it in your media library (your main asset panel, usually on the left) then you have a new discrete copy to work from that has the same attributes as your original copy as a starting point (placement, font and so on)
Alternately, if you have After Effects you’ll have much finer control over titling with expressions and scripting that can make localization much easier.
Angelo Lorenzo
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Make as many copies (duplicates) of the title in proyect pannel as number or sequences in which you have to use it, and change only this duplicates to be used in other sequences.
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Thanks for the input. I had thought about duplicating the titles themselves, but then I would need to replace them in each sequence no? For this reason the fastest workaround I have found is to duplicate the project, and then go in and change the text of each title. It leaves me with 10 unique projects for one video, but that’s not the end of the world since queuing exports is easy, and I never need to change the actual edit of the video once the first translation is finalized.
I am very interested in this scripting and expressions in After Effects, I was actually just reading about expressions yesterday for the first time in an unrelated search, could you give me an idea of how those would help with my localization workflow?
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Look at:
https://lesterbanks.com/2011/12/expression-driven-captions-in-after-effects/https://www.ithowto.ro/2008/12/adobe-after-effects-subtitle-script/
The latter may be the better choice for you. You create markers each time you want a caption to appear and the script applies the caption content from a text file. You could create localized text files and apply them to a few copies of the timeline once you’ve created your timing.
Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
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A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks -
Thanks for this, very helpful!
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