Globally change text parameters

[Mark Smith]

Brian-

You may not understand the situation fully–I have about 10 lower thirds in a small project that were based on a stock text FCPX template. text background parameters are published with that template.

What I want to do is select instances of the text template in the time line index , which when I do, I see in the browser as x amount of items selected. I do see the text template background color as active and can change the color. When i do change the text background color, only one lower third background changes and the remaining text backgrounds are unchanged.
No compound clips are involved in this at all.

[Andreas Kiel]

Mark,

You’re right.
I’ve never been in a situation like that, so I don’t know whether it has been like that since day one.
You should file at least a feature request.

in the meantime: to speed up your job to change multiple clip colors create a custom palette.

– Andreas

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[Brian Seegmiller]

Yes, I understood your issue. Just trying to think of a better way to do it without to much trouble. Of course I think of it after the fact sometimes on my projects. For this situation I would have created a compound clip with just the colored bar and then add the individual text later for each one. If I change my mind on the color, I can do it by just changing one compound clip. If the text stays the same for all lower thirds as well, include that in the compound clip.

[Mark Smith]

Filed a feature request to Apple.

[Doug Metz]

[Mark Smith] “Filed a feature request to Apple.”

I filed it as a bug. ;^)

Doug Metz

Anode

[Mark Smith]

I think you’re right- its more of a bug than a feature request.