How to copy and paste text attribute?

[Kevin Monahan]

Can’t you just open the XML and do a find and replace for placement, fonts and font size?

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[Kevin Monahan] “Can’t you just open the XML and do a find and replace for placement, fonts and font size? “

That’s where things get a wee bit technical. I’d say that some people certainly can, some certainly can’t and most of the rest of us might be able to, given enough patience.

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[Ricky Yu]

Export an XML
OPen it with a text editor
Use the Find Command to find the name of your Text Eg.
Replace with your desired font Eg.
Hit replace all

For Font size it’s a bit trickier, since the size is only indicated by a number and you don’t want to change other numbers that are related to your font size. You have to Copy and paste surrounding lines of code, basically a big chunk that indicates the font size. Replace it with the same big chunk of code but with a different font size value. I can’t get into detail about it here. you just gotta study the code a bit and understand what makes it tick. The same logic applies with the font style I pointed out above.

Import the XML back into Final Cut to see the result. I recommend doing a test first with only one hunk of text so you don’t get confused.

RKKY of Hong Kong

[Troy Lanier]

I exported XML, used a free text editor “text wrangler”, used find and replace every instance of this code

fontsize
Size
0
1000
24

with this code

fontsize
Size
0
1000
36

it changes font size from 24 to 36

i did the same thing for font color, font style (bold), and font.

It worked for over 500 titles I had to change, and saved me tons of time and wrist wear.

I lost all render files though from other renders.

[Tom Adams]

darn . i need to do the same thing and quick. what a pain in the butt.

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[Carlo Arias]

you just saved me a ton of work, thanks man…

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[Quentin De fouchecour]

it works perfectly thanks, I would ad the fact that when you’ve done it once, (find all/ replace all) if you, like me, have ather reel to do, just open the xml of the next reel and do “replace all”. since you want to maintain the same parameters you don’t have to type again everything
really fast
you saved my day : ))

[Alex Bayer]

Ricky, this was a huge help. Thank you. -A

[Brittany Clawson]

Hi! I am attempting to copy and paste text attributes. However, the only thing I need to change is the position of the text, not the font or the size. Is there a way to do this?

[Thomas Dasilva]

I just ran into this issue, what we did was design the text features to our liking, then at the top of the text window, click the text style menu (I think it says “Normal” by default) and select “save style attributes”. Name the style, then you can lasso the entire set of titles in the sequence, select this new preset from the menu, and it will apply to all of the titles. So, you don’t use paste attributes at all to conform the titles. I realize this is an old thread but never hurts to share.