Frustrating problem about subtitle

[George Roberson]

this is killing me. I have 800 subtitles, do i need to change it one by one to a differnt font size and color?

[Nick Meyers]

you cant batch modify text generators in FCP

there is an app you can use: Title Exchange Pro

or you can do a find & replace in the XML file for the attributes for colour & size.

create one subtitle the way you like it, place it in a new timeline and export an XML.
open that XML in text edit, or similar and find the appropriate attributes. (size = xx for instance)

then open the original XML in text edit, and do a find / replace. (size = xx to size = yy)

should work!

nick

[George Roberson]

Thanks! I think I am just gonna keep the default color (white).

[Nick Meyers]

you can cheat the colour in.

make sure you have all your subtitles text generators on one track
on a track above that lay some colour.
right click on the colour, and change it;s composite mode to Travel Matte – Luma.

if you need drop shadow, then you need to create a duplicate layer of the text generator.

so in the basic form you’d have:
V1= image
V2 = text (will keep hte drop shadow)
V3 = text (will lose drop shadow, but adopt colour from V4)
V4 = colour

of course you can use the wireframe to alter the size of the subs, but if you make them too large they’ll go a bit soft.

nick

[George Roberson]

Thanks man. Too much for me to handle. Appreciate your input…