titles not updating!!!

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Andy,

I haven’t tried Duplicate. Rather, I open the original title in Titler and hit the button that makes a new copy there, have never had any issues.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Andy Engelkemier]

Ha, I never hovered over those three buttons there to see what they were. I’ll give that a try.

I Think also that turning off/on visibility of that video track refreshes it as well. I haven’t confirmed that completely yet, but it did work once at least.

[Alex Udell]

It sounds like you are doing this, but…

make sure you are editing the duplicates in the project panel and NOT copy/pasting titles and launching to edit from the sequence.

When you copy and paste on the timeline these copies all refer to the same master in the project panel. so if you change one… it will change all copies on the timeline. If you are coming from FCP….this behavior is distinctly different from FCP…
where every duplicate made on the timeline is independent.

Alex

[Gabriel Sanchez]

I always do that as Jeff says, open an existing title in the titler and choose new title based in the actual one, so text position, character size and family are the same, just write another text and that´s all.

Regards

[Andy Engelkemier]

Confirmed, it’s a bug of some sort. It doesn’t always happen, but turning the layer’s visibility off/on causes it to refresh. So that’s a workaround at least.

I logged it with Adobe. I can’t pinpoint when it happens, so it may never get fixed. I assume it doesn’t happen on all systems either. At least I know a fix.

I had it happen once after using the technique you suggested by creating a copy using the button at the top left in the titler, so that didn’t solve it either. It just sometimes happens. Meh, I’ll just have to keep a close eye on things.

[Joe Bell]

Still having the same issue in 2017 (current version of Premier).

Hide/showing the title layer didn’t work for me. Restarting Premier did.

[Chul woon g Lee]

Hi, there.

I’m using CC 2017 and encounter the similar problem.
I’m not sure that the duplication and copying&pasting are same functions,
but I copied the ‘title01’ and renamed it ‘title02’.

I clicked the spuit tool (not good at English, so I mean the tool for extracting the specific color) in the title tool menu,
and didn’t choose any color, just push ESC.
The problem came up that time.
Kept trying to change the color or the texts, but no change at all.

Suddenly I clicked the spuit tool again and just pushed ESC,
then I could change the title finally.

[Andy Engelkemier]

As people mentioned above, don’t copy and paste, or duplicate the title as you might with any other object in Premiere. Instead, duplicate/copy the title using the top left button from within the titler. That creates a New copy of the title.

I really think this is a huge oversight on Adobe’s part. Especially since it’s not a true instance, and only seems to mess up Some of the time.
But anyway, it’s just something to learn. Never duplicate a title from anywhere other than the titler.

[Nate Ward]

I have a similar question about duplicating graphics, but for a slightly different purpose.

I have several videos, one for each timeline, and I’m creating text graphics in about a dozen different languages. I have the English text graphics all laid out on a video track as title objects, with precise timing, fades, and text formatting. I’m planning on putting each language on its own video layer, but with how Premiere treats title objects, I can’t just select the entire English track, copy, paste it onto the next language track, and start replacing text.

Is there any way I can keep my timing and formatting without having to drag text objects down to the timeline one by one for every language, short of creating a premiere project for every language?

Thanks.

[Jill Monterey]

This started in 2012 and it’s back in 2019. The titles are now “Legacy Titles” and they’re suddenly broken for me. They’re not only not updating (I, too, always use that little tool in the upper-left to create a new title based off the existing one), but new ones are not “taking” at all. I create a title in the editor, apply a background, colors, etc., and every title shows as a black box in the Assembly bin. When I drag them onto the timeline there’s literally nothing there. If I double-click to open them back up in the Title editor, they’re empty.