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render changing textup subtitle position
Hello kind creative cowers,
I have a strange problem. I´m working on the initial edit of a 3 screen video installation, and i just moved all of my subtitles from boris to textup after learning (too late) that i could not extract a text file for translation from boris titles (ugh).i had to tweak the positioning of these titles to match the position of the boris titles – we´re working on a custom sized canvas (v-position of the text and vertical position of the entire frame). Needless to say, the moment I render the titles to watch the video, they change position, moving down significantly. What´s going on here? faulty plug-in?
any suggestions welcome!
(ps – sorry no detailed system specs now, but we´re working in fcp 7.0.3 on an imac)
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Can you reposition the textup credits so the render moves them to the right place?
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Angela,
Saw your post by chance.
I tried it with a 1080×1920 project. And you’re right the titles move vertically. The crazy thing is that while rendering FCP resets the values of vertical position values randomly.
A workaround is not to use the generators vertical offset values but the motion offsets. This will keep them in place.Andreas
Spherico
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Hi Andreas,
Great – thanks for the workaround tip! I will do this. Good that you responded because I’m about to embark on another section of the video and can now go ahead with textup – thanks! greetings from bayern! -
Ah, but now a question – is there any way to change the v position of the generator in all of the clips at the same time? or will I have to go through and do this manually?
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You got good luck, as I just checked my mail.
Copy one modified generator, then select all the others and then “paste attributes – motion”.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools -
hey andreas,
thanks for the reply! i should have been more specific – is there any way to set the v-position in the generator back to 0 for all of my clips (motion attributes are simple this way, but settings of the generator attributes seem like they have to be changed manually).oh, and i just downloaded titleexchange to see how the xml conversion works – it was a beautiful moment when i saw all of the subtitles appear before my eyes as a txt file – wonderful!
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Angela,
There are two options.
First one:
Use TitleExchange Pro and do an FCP XML to FCP XML conversion.
With the free version it is limited to 50 titles. And even though TEP is a quite mighty app you may lose some of your special setting if subtitles do differ in color.Next one:
Use a text editor(TextWrangler).It’s quite simple.
Export XML.
Open the XML in the text editor.
Search for
Import the resulting XML into FCP. This sounds like a tedious work but it's much faster compared to FCP.If your subs do have all the same vertical offset it's kind a snip of the fingers.
Within the text editor copy the whole "block" and use the "Find & Replace". In the "Replace" entry change the value as described above. Then press "Replace all".
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools -
THANK YOU!!! 🙂
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You know, I just followed your instructions – which seem very logical – but when i import the xml back into fcp, while it has changed the v-offset to 0, there is now an extra line between all of the subtitles with two lines…hmm…
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Angela,
What version of FCP are you using?
You can also send me an email with your phone number and we can solve that for sure within a few minutes. I’m in Germany as well.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
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