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Premiere Titler Woes – Super Long Project – Premiere’s Titler (albeit feature rich) Slows Me Down
I am working on a 6 hour instructional video with an obscene amount of titles peppered throughout the entire thing.
Wait for a moment while I slowly cock the gun I have to my head.
Right now I am running into speed issues with creating titles in Premiere Pro CS 6. I need to be able to create a lot of similar titles very quickly, otherwise I’m going to spend the rest of life staring at this terrible video.
I am coming from Final Cut Pro 7 where I could copy a title I’ve created in the timeline, paste it in another location, change the text, and be done. I could do this quickly and efficiently, moving down the timeline.
Unfortunately, in Premiere, when you copy a clip of text and paste it somewhere else, the pasted clip uses the same source file as the clip that it was copied from, meaning if I change the new clip, it also changes the clip I copied it from. This is not good and it means I have to add some extra steps to my work flow.
In Premiere, I have to go into the project window, find the text clip I want to use, duplicate the text clip (not copy it), change the name of the clip file, then change the CG text content, then drag the clip back into the timeline. It may not sound like there’s much more work to this method, but when you have to create 1,200 titles in a row, every extra step really adds up.
Does anyone have a quick and efficient way to create a ton of titles in Premiere? Nothing fancy, just simple titles.
Any help would greatly appreciated.
-Derek
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6 Replies
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Premiere works really well with Photoshop. Could you create a template with transparent background and batch create all of your titles in Ps, then import to Premiere?
The titler is pretty basic in Pr; but I think there is a button in the top right that creates a new title based on the current layout and design – if you are creating lots in a row this might help?
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I’m not sure if there’s a way to save time dropping them into the timeline, but you can save time in the Title tool itself.
In the Title tool window, you’ll see a little “T” inside a film strip. It’s located underneath the box in the upper left that contains the name of the title…e.g. “Title: Title 01.” If you hover over that, you’ll see that it reads: “New title based on current title.”
Make your first title, control/command+save, then hit that new title button and make your next title. Rinse and repeat. It’s much faster than duplicating, renaming and opening from your bin.
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Hi Derek,
Here’s what I do –
Take existing title and place a copy on timeline where you want the next title to be. Double-click it to open in Titler, then use aforementioned method of “New Title based on current”. Modify title and exit. Right-click title on timeline (on PC, Mac may be different) and select “Replace with Clip from Bin”. This will “update” the title to the new version you just created.
So, you could create the original “template” title off which all subsequent titles will be based, and actually use that throughout as a placeholder, and then just open-modify-replace as needed.
Example – I shoot six dance recital shows, each with 40 acts. That’s 240 titles. I create the first title and place it, add cross dissolves at both ends and adjust length. This is my master, and then that same title gets pasted between each dance scene, dissolves already applied! Then I can just quickly go through and modify content of each title and replace. Very efficient.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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I tried the “New Title Based on Current”, which is nice. Unfortunately, on a Mac, you cannot right click a title clip and select “Replace with Clip From Bin”. It is grayed out. So I have to drag the title to the timeline and apply the transitions to the ends for every single title.
I really wish you could right click on a title clip in the timeline, select something like “New Title Based on Selected Title”, change it, and then have that reflected immediately on the clip you selected in the timeline. Having to redrag everything from the bin to the timeline 1,000 times and apply transitions for each clip is rather annoying.
–UPDATE–
I got the “Replace Clip from Bin” to work. I misunderstood and didn’t realize you have to have the clip selected in the bin AND the clip selected in the timeline before you right click and select “Replace Clip from Bin”.
Thank you so much. This saves me a lot of time!
-Drk
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My experience has been that when you create the new title in titler, when you exit the titler, the title clip is added to the bin, AND is highlighted already. If it is not highlighted for you, not sure why. Did you do any other actions before “Replace”? If you go directly to timeline to do Replace immediately after exiting titler, it should work.
The clip in the timeline should not need to be highlighted first – just right-clicking the timeline clip brings up the drop down with the Replace option for that clip.
Glad it is helping you
Jeff Pulera
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in cases like this….
how ever you end up creating the titles….
I find it faster to edit in the sequence using the initial title as a placeholder with transitions…(which you can simply select, copy and paste while working and trim to desired length)
create your versions so that you have them in the Proj Panel (photohsop or titler or what have you)…
then use Option+drag to replace on the time line from the proj panel.
hope that helps…
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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