Changing Multiple Titles from "Essential Title" to "Basic Title" only found in the "Edit" menu

It always did ... work... It came to my attention with this

Final Cut Pro Flashback transition broken? - Apple Community

There was a "stuttering effect" at the beginning and end of Flashback like this:

There was also black spaces that appeared at the beginning (and more than just the one frame you see here). I repaired the transition so that it looked more normal:

(Hard to tell what's "normal" with GIFs... :P)

At the same time there was another problem with the Color Panel Transition where the incoming (to the transition) clip in the storyline would shift left about 3 pixels at the start. (Pixel Shift within Transitions - Apple Community).

[Both of these "repairs" are available on my Downloads page (https://fcpxtemplates.com/downloads).]

Since I've been "stuck" in 10.4.10, I have no idea what their current states are. I still get people downloading the Censor effect that was broken awhile back even though I'm fairly sure Apple fixed that one (at least). [https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251745922]

There have been several default templates with these nearly unnoticeable errors in them along the way. However, for some people, the errors stick out like sore thumbs.

It wouldn't surprise me if there is some minor maladjustment or detail that was overlooked in Essential Title that could stand a little attention. However, at this point we've seemed to have lost the OP in this thread (so it probably doesn't matter anymore.)

This will most likely work using Basic Title.

Use the Timeline Index configured to display titles only Then use the Shift or Command key to select all the required titles:

Next, double click the Basics Title in the Browser. You are done.

Remember that Command-Z will revert your changes if there is a failure.

If you are concerned about messing up, Duplicate the Project and use the dup to practice on.

Al

fox_m wrote:

Out of curiosity... is it *not* possible to right click on the title and "Open a copy in Motion"?

Yes, of course it is.

However, this would not help the OP, I think, because even some adaptations were made, he'd still have to replace the old versions with the new title - and that's exactly how he started and was not working for him.

I would have expected the process described by Alchroma to have worked - in a few examples that I tried (obviously in a much smaller scale), it worked beautifully.

There may be another way.

Again, I have not done anything like this in such a scale, but it should work, and in any case, working in a copy at least it cannot hurt to try.

I am thinking of exporting an XML of the project doing an overall find and replace.

If you're willing to share the xml, I can try to do it for you.

If you are seeing the word "Title" after applying the Basic Title in place of "Essential Title", then usually what that means is that the Essential Title has more than one Text Object... some kind of way in its construction. It doesn't have to be visible. If this is the case, then you cannot apply the usual Replace Title operation as Alchroma outlined — FCPX is attempting to replace the wrong text object's text.

I haven't been able to determine where "Essential Title" comes from, who made it, or seen an example of it anywhere. Without seeing what's involved, I cannot really make a recommendation as to how to proceed other than:

If you have Motion and Essential Title is editable (not locked), then you could actually 1) back up the original, 2) make edits in Motion to change it how you want it (remove animations) and Save it, 3) restart Final Cut Pro to activate/update the changes in all the used instances of the Title in your storyline.

If Final Cut is crashing on a title (the usual symptom is that it just "disappears"), it could be a corrupt font that's being used. Use Font Book to verify the fonts you're using. If there are any issues that show up, disable the font. The system will automatically make a substitution and you can go from there.

There really are no intrinsic problems with Final Cut and Titles. Most of the templates made for FCPX are titles, or at least seem to be. They're convenient and allow you to place not only text titles, but "effects" over any time length in the storyline. But that doesn't help you in this case.

You still haven't said what the exact Title you used is — just "Essential Title". There's more than one out there and there are several "collections" of titles under the name of "Essential" something. I would need to know the *exact* "Essential Title" you are referring to.

Is the Essential Title you're referring to a free template? If so, where can I get it. If I can edit it's makeup, I can remove what's causing your problem. You could then simply replace the original installation with the altered version, then restart FCPX and all should be as you want it... all 1200 instances of it.

I'm not familiar with the export problems you're experiencing. You may want to start a new thread to get the attention of people more familiar with it. You might try checking out these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWHfz7_bbo8 (How To Fix FCPX Failed Render Error RequestCVpixelbufferForFrame) and

https://youtu.be/11wqQhrFbhQ (How to Quickly Find & Fix RenderFrameAt Share Failed Issue in Final Cut Pro X)

The Essential Title must be a new title with the latest releases of Final Cut. I'm still running 10.4.10 and I don't have it. If you could get it to me, I could have a look at it. Unfortunately, where it is installed is not where I would recommend anyone to go to fetch it (it's inside the Final Cut Pro application bundle.) Maybe Luis or perhaps Rowie could arrange it — I trust they have the knowledge to find it and get it. As a note: if the new titles use ANY feature newly added to Motion (beyond 5.4.7 — like using the new tracker, etc.) I won't be able to do anything with it.

I don't think that being an Apple Silicon mac is the issue here.

I'd be more inclined to think that, maybe, it is the sheer number of titles that is causing an error - could be. Of course, it should not happen, anyway.

Maybe you could try another test: instead of exporting small chunks of the project, select everything in about the first half, copy, and paste into a new test project. Does this "firsthalf" show the same problems?

If it does, then does the "firstquarter" show these? The point of these test is to try and determine if there is some sort of a limit on the number of titles. By the way, the original task of replacing one title to another, while keeping the text, should also have worked with the solution offered before; another indication that maybe the number of titles plays a part in the problem.

The credit for recommending these videos above should go to Fox, not me.

I played around with Essential Title and it doesn't seem to have any movement at all when it's set to its defaults, at least for me on 10.6.6. Maybe I'm just missing something.

Could it be that in the Title inspector they're set to something other than "None" for the "Animation Style"?

Or could there be some keyframes associated with the text element?