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How do I change the text in an A.E. template
I was going to use the expo template for a tag to a commercial and just change the “information” text that is allready there, I cant get the text tool to select the text Im trying to change, what do I need to do? Any help would rock.
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hi there – I haven’t seen or used any of these templates… but here are my suggestions –
If it is a text layer and you just can get the curser to select to correct layer in the composition window…. double click on the text layer in the timline and this will select all the text.
Maybe it is a solid with the basic text effect applied? If so, click on the layer, hit “e”, then go “edit text”
…… of course you could also check that the layer is not locked, or precomped….
hope this might have helped
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I tried your tips, but the file is a photoshop file, the cure I found was to make another psd and then go to the project pane and then right click the original asset and choose replace footage, this worked well enough but when I exported the file to put into final cut the quality was very low what format should I choose when exporting for final cut?
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If it is a photoshop layer that is text you can usually go “Composition -> Make editable text” and AE will convert it to a text layer.
As for exporting – make sure you use the render queue (Not File->export)
In the render settings make sure you have everything set to best quality and full resolution. If it’s all graphics then I’d turn field render off.
Then in outout module choose quicktime movie, then under format option choose animation if you can afford the disk space. If you need a smaller file you might try photoJPEG at 100%. We have blackmagic output cards so we use the Blackmagic 10bit codec. If you are unsure about which codec to use maybe do another search of the COW archives for “AE to finalcut” or something like that.
Good luck
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