Past attribute not working on Titles in Final Cut Pro

Merlino wrote:

Hi Luis,

I’m using option b) in fact, but even if I manually drag the text lower on the video screen, the Y value in the transform tool is updated accordingly…

What I called "a)" looks like this:

Notice that no Transform tool is active, you just click and drag the text.

This changes the position of the text relative to its container, but NOT the position of the title - no change in X or Y in the video inspector, either.

Option "b)" is to actually use the Transform tool, and it may look like this:

Dragging this way DOES change the whole title, and DOES affect the X and Y values.

If you do it this way,and then Copy; and subsequently do Paste Attributes to another title (or clip or generator), like this:

then the transform values carry over:

How exactly did you position the text?

There two ways to do so:

a) Click and drag the text

b) Use the Transform tool to modify the position of the Title itself.

In this case, you are going to to want to use Option b), because that is what the Transform:Position will use in the Paste Attributes.

I was changing the Position on the "Text Inspector" Tab (which as you explained is the position within the container), while I had to change the Position on the "Video Inspector" Tab (on the transform section).

Look, you didn't realize that, right? This is basic functionality. Luis and I knew from the beginning that you didn't know much about how to set titles and position clips.

“I’m actually quite familiar with FCP” and don’t overestimate your own abilities. Because it misses important things and prevents you from expanding your knowledge.

As you said, this position is copied and can be pasted as an attribute to all other texts in one go.

Luis's and my proposals may seem different, but the result is the same. The only difference is whether you set it later or first.

I'm not sure it is logical that the container-position is not copied as well

Please give feedback to Apple.

The paste function clearly shows that it is pasting transform attributes only. There should be a better function to do this for titles, so you should use feedback to make a feature request.

I was trying to use "Paste attribute" to copy the formatting to all the titles

Mistake: Insert title →Paste attributes and location information later

Correct answer: Create a title with attributes and location information →Replace only the characters later

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What should be easy and possible is to format one title (font, size, position) and copy the formatting to all the other titles that are already there.

I had already imagined that a lot of title clips would be inserted into the timeline by loading the XML. The reason why it doesn't work is probably because you are not yet familiar with FCP editing.

As Luis said, titles and clips have different types of information. You are trying to treat two different clips the same way. It is wrong to think that you can do this with shift+⌘V (paste attribute), even though you need to understand the characteristics and treat them separately.

For the above reasons, I needed to create an adjusted title and then suggest character substitutions.

I don't know exactly that is not copied, I can only speculate that it is because it's a feature specific to titles, and does not exist in clips in general; but still I think it should have worked.

I am glad I could help!