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

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.

If you highlight one of the Essential Title text elements and tap Shift + Command + X does anything show up as available to remove? Don't forget to scroll down as you can't expand the Remove Attributes window.

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

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 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?

Testing Alchroma's method of switching Essential Text to Basic Test worked as expected in 10.6.6, retaining whatever custom text I'd typed in.

It does seem to reset the position to zero though, but whatever typed-in text I changed an Essential Text element to, even with multiple lines/returns, switched over to Basic Text without loosing the wording or reverting to "Title" text.

"Basic Title" is in the titles browser.

Just select Titles in the sidebar and search for it.

It is in the Bumper/Opener category.

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

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.