Creating Sequential Titles in PP

[Michael Hancock]

This is a piece of cake in Photoshop if you learn to use data sets and have access to Excel (or OpenOffice).

Read about DataSets here:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7417a.html

There are a ton of tutorials online too. Quick Google search pointed me to this one (I haven’t watched it but scrubbed through it – looks like it covers everything you need to know).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJV6ug1npyQ

If you’re handy in After Effects you can buy CompsFromSpreadsheet or run the 7 day trial for this project – buy it if you need to use it again after that. It allows you to do basically the same thing as data sets in Photoshop – make an Excel sheet, save it as tab delimited, and automate After Effects. I used it yesterday to change a phone number and tag on a commercial – generated 55 spots in a couple of minutes. Here’s a link to it (watch the tutorial – it’s well done):

https://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/

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Michael Hancock
Editor

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[Tim Kolb]

I’ve built countdowns of various types in AE…it’s pretty easy.

You may or may not need it to be something in motion, and I realize it may seem a bit weird, but depending on how many you need, setting it up in AE and then just sliding along the comp and saving frames out as PSDs might be the fastest way to get them done…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

Good suggestion, but wondering, could the AE animation be output as an “Image Sequence” to get all the stills without exporting one at a time?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Tim Kolb]

Excellent suggestion Jeff… You could set the values to change every frame and you’re set…

No question…faster than my original thoughts on it.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Jeff Pulera]

Another thought for non-AE users. In PP Titler, there is the button at upper left to “Make New Title from Current”. Create the first title as a template, then click button to duplicate, update the date, next, next, next, next. I would not want to do this 365 times myself, but works for smaller project with many similar titles. Creates fast, consistent results, with title name being auto-numbered.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Caleb Mclaughlin]

Wow, excellent ideas. I’ll check out that tutorial for sure as soon as I can. I also liked the idea of exporting an AE composition as an image sequence. Crafty.

Thanks guys!

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Caleb

[Steven L. gotz]

I know that this is a really old thread, but I just finished creating a solution for this problem and if someone is searching the forums for an answer….

I have a Microsoft Word macro that allows you to open a file, type or paste in all of the text (one line per title) and then automatically make copies of an exported title. Up to 9999 of them.

You could use MS Excel to put in the dates really fast, paste it into the MS Word document, and have 365 titles in a few minutes.

It can be used for subtitles, or for lower thirds for a graduation ceremony – anything with more than a few titles.

Just import the the titles back in to Premiere Pro and drag/drop or automate to sequence.

I have always thought it was possible and finally got the help I needed to get it done.

Just send me an e-mail from my web site if you want to beta test it. I need a few testers before I release it into the wild just in case I missed something.

If you are worried about running a macro, the text is in rather plain, somewhat readable text in the Visual Basic for Applications editor that is part of MS Word. You can read through it before running it. But really, I have been around these forums for many years (just not much lately). I wouldn’t mess with you.

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com

[Marcin Grabos]

For subtitling I personally use two simple tools.
First one is SubtitleEdit. It can be used with any editing software because output are png pictures with transparency. You need create txt file with subtitle lines (each line is for one png), import this txt as plain text (menu file -> import plain text), go to menu file->export-> BDN xml/png option, then choose font, size, color, outline, align and export all.
The other one is ancient software developed for Premiere Pro 2.0 and it’s still works (at least with CS 5.5 on Win 7). Is called Premiere Pro Title Creator https://www.2writers.com/Eddie/PpTitleCreator.htm) First thing is as usual – make txt file with your subs lines (save it with ANSI formating). Then, create template title in Premiere as you wish to look like (but instead of “type tool” use “area type tool), find and highligt it in the project panel, export as title with any name, open Title Creator, and do 3 steps: import your nice title-template prtl file, import your subs in txt and press create title files (output will be as many prtl files as your lines in txt with nice look of your own template). Of course these prtl’s can be further edited after importing to Premiere, but that’s not the point.