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

I'm kinda stumped. When I play around with Essential Title it's rock-solid, unmoving. I made sure it's settings are identical to your screenshot. My only thinking is double checking the Video Inspector for the text element and ensure there are no keyframes. I'm not sure what else could be causing the slight movement you're seeing; I'm unable to replicate it by just dropping in that text element.

You could highlight one (yellow highlight or just the "active" dot) and tap Control V and see if there are any keyframes visible in there.

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.

Yes, but the OP could double click a remake to replace the selected titles as they would with Basic Title. [... which should be tried out on a duplicated segment of the project in another project first.] All I would be doing is checking for problems that might cause an animation to occur where there shouldn't be one (kind of like what happened with the Flashback Transition — BTW, did Apple ever fix that?)

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.)

I am away from my mac but I am pretty sure that there is no built-in titles called Essential anything, these must be third party titles. Apologies in advance if I’m mistaken 😎

They’re built in. A new Essential Titles category.

Tom Wolsky wrote:

They’re built in. A new Essential Titles category.

Thanks! I stand corrected.

Don’t know what was broken, but it seems to be working.

It's hard to tell on Flashback, but it looks ok to me. I don't see a pixel shift in the image position in Color Panels.

Good to know! Thanks.