Simultaneous Changes to multiple segments of text.

[Kevin Monahan]

Nope. You have to do them one at a time. BTW, I suggest using Title 3D and not the legacy title generators. The quality and control is much better. Title 3D’s on the install disk in the Extras folder.

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[David Bogie]

Not that it helps at the moment but, Kevin, let’s say he uses a Boris font tool and chooses a style from the palette. Can you make a change to that style and have it go global? Seems we did that once back in the Olden Media 100 Days with the original Graffiti but I may be fantasizing?

We did save ourselves a ton of trouble on a project last year with some preplanning. We KNEW the clients would change their minds many times on fonts and colors. We designed the lower thirds and other text in PowerPoint. All we did was change the master slides and reimport. The only reason it worked was careful planning.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Kevin Monahan]

Bog,
He’s gonna have to touch every single text generator regardless of using Title 3D or not. However, I’d just change one of ’em, do a Replace Edit on all of ’em in rapid fire. Then I’d go back in and merely change the text. Changing one thing is faster than changing 4 things.

What you’re talking about sounds like a feature request. Unfortunately.

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[Rienk Leendertse]

I think you could consider exporting as XML.
Open the XML in a text editor and just do a ‘replace all’ for the specific text.
Save as plain textfile (with the .xml extension)
and re-import in FCP…

Rienk