Premiere Pro CC bug??? title in title window displays as completely different title on timeline

[Michael Scholz]

This issue is still NOT fixed by Adobe. It makes me look like a fool in front of my costumer. I have to produce a ton of titles and they acting just weird.

For example. I duplicate a title, Adobe gives it a new naming. For example “Title copy 1”. After I replace the text everything works fine in the preview. After I exported the clip the export shows errors and starts to reference the old title with the new title. It’s just a mess. I really enjoy working in PP but paying such a lot of money for a non working titler is not acceptable.

[Ht Davis]

Here’s what I see happening:
you are duping a clip linked to a file in your project panel. The original and the dupe point to the same file in the panel and get their info from that file. Every clip in a timeline has an original file linked to it (a linkage modifier that points to the file on disk or an image made in the program like a title). THIS IS NOT A BUG. You dupe the title in the timeline when you want it to play again or longer (you just duplicated a clip, genius, not a file). You dupe the title in the project panel when you want the same style etc, but maybe a different message or duration. You can then edit that new title, and drag it to your timeline as a new title, a new clip, a new file.

IF you want to make titles quickly:
Using a word document, type the lines as you want them to appear, bear in mind the size of your screen. When you want to go to a new title, place a section break. Leave a hard return above the titles and below.
Save the doc and open indesign, create a document the size of your video frame. You should be able to import your titles from that word doc. Go to the master, set your style, type-face, font etc. Set this as a layer all its own and call it text. Make a new layer below that one called background and fill it with 50% grey, telling the program not to print it (it will be an alpha channel, invisible). Apply the master to your pages. Boom. Done. Export the entirety to a PNG with alpha, at your desired resolution, and place in a special folder named titles, give them a -0 at the end of the name you enter. They will all be numbered, but you may want to add a 1 to the end of the name on the first one (it doesn’t write the “1” for you on some systems). Now drag the whole folder into your premiere project. You now have all your titles.

Stop calling a cherished function a bug.