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Paste to selected clips?
Not sure if this can be done. I have a show where the same phone # appears 20 different times on the same layer.Sometimes I have to make 50 dubs a week of this show with Different Phone #s.What I would like to be able to do is duplicate time line, change the phone # the first time it appears in the sequence, copy it, and paste to all the other instances where the same phone # appears all at once.This will cut out alot of time. Presently I am going to each title and hitting replace edit (over 20 keystrokes per seq!). I know all about paste attributes but video is grayed out. Is that because it is a Boris 3D title?. Any help woud be appreciated! Regards Dan
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2 suggestions:
1- use a ‘replace’ edit, it’s the F-11 key on your keyboard. It will replace the clip under the playhead in the targeted track with the clip in the viewer, lining both up with whatever frame the 2 playheads are on.
2- Traffic from https://www.xmedit.com/Arnie
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I believe you can do it via XML, but you’d have to use standard text generators. Check out Sperico Tools. https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/
Also check out AutoMotion to do this in Motion. https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/
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Type your phone numbers in Live Type
then bring it into FCP.
Then change it by using Open in Editor.
This will update every phone number
if you save it using the same name. -
Type your phone numbers in Live Type
then bring it into FCP.
Then change it by using Open in Editor.
This will update every phone number
if you save it using the same name. -
If you create a sequence with the title nested, you’d only have to change it one time, and all versions of this nest would change at one time…
Jerry
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Couldn’t you just use a photoshop file and update just the photoshop file before opening the project? The file would update in every instance, wouldn’t it, especially if you keep it as a master file and make sure you don’t break the affiliate relationships (so you could simply force it offline, then reconnect it to make sure it updates every instance)?
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Newest version of FCP allows you to update PS files (and other linked files) on the fly and reconnect automatically. There’s a new check box in prefs “automatically reconnect”.
It’s the way the program should’ve worked since version 1.0.
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But you should use only one merged layer as FCP is not able to
update resized PSD layers and that’s what is happening when
changing text layers …Or you use Motion between PSD and FCP …
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It’s always worked for me even before the update. Perhaps I have a different workflow. But I’ve made title rolls which I update later (by making them shorter or longer, etc.) and they work. Maybe you should always make the psd canvas larger than neccessary from the begining. That’s something I always do. Maybe that’s the difference.
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” Newest version of FCP allows you to update PS files (and other linked files) on the fly and reconnect automatically. There’s a new check box in prefs “automatically reconnect”.”
Ah, thanks for that! Never even noticed this setting.
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