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updating titles on the timeline
Can anyone direct me to a guide for using titles in Avid? For the record I’m kinda new to this coming from other systems.
My issue comes with revising a title on the timeline, specifically I have one title that appears many times through a timeline. Right now, if the client changes the title I change every instance of it on the timeline, but what I want to do is change it once and have every instance of it update automatically. Is this possible?
I also have a lot of extra titles that for some reason get saved to my Sequence bin. Is this normal?
The “change one title but update many times” question is my biggest problem though. Any suggestions?
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My initial answer is no. But after thinking about it, try pressing control and double click the title in the bin. I kind of think it won’t, but it’s worth a try. Let us know if it works.
Jon
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Holding Ctrl+Double clicking the title will open the title in the title tool so you can make changes and save over itself, which keeps you from having a lot of titles with .01, .02, etc… at the end of the names. However, it doesn’t autoupdate in the sequence.
The only way to autoupdate a sequence is to make your titles in a third party program like Photoshop and import them. Then, if you need to make a change, change it in Photoshop, save over itself, then delete the associated media in your Avid and batch import the now offline titles (don’t delete the Master clips!). This will autoupdate anywhere the imported titles are used.
If you need to keep the original photoshop file, make your change, save it as something different, delete associated media of your titles in the Avid, Batch Import offline clips, then select the title, hit Set Location, point to the new title name, hit OK. It will import the new title and autoupdate.
Mike.
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I knew somone had an answer – good one!
Jon
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Thanks everyone. An even better idea vs. Photoshop is a standalone version of Inscriber. I got one with an old license of Premiere, I wonder if I can even buy it anymore.
I use this exact workflow with Vegas – only it is smart enough to auto-update the media if it changes for whatever reason. Thanks for confirming my suspicion that the Avid titler isn’t designed for editing with clients.
– Rick
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“Thanks for confirming my suspicion that the Avid titler isn’t designed for editing with clients.”
LOL. That is an awesome comment. While I agree that Avid’s titling does need a major update, when clients get involved there a lot of things that don’t work like they’re supposed to!
If you can use a third party app like Inscriber (I have no experience with it) or Photoshop and can save png or targa files (my favorites to use in Avid) you’ll be good to go. You’ll also get much better looking titles than with Avid’s regular title tool!
Mike.
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