Final Cut Pro X - copy and pasting a title including the text

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Final Cut Pro X - copy and pasting a title including the text

I am a FCPX newbie. I am making multiple videos that have the same four titles at the end - phone numbers and other info. Is it possible to copy, save and paste a title from one video to another including text? I am familiar with saving a title template in Motion, but I'm talking about the individual title with specific text and length. It seems like donkey work to redo the same set of four titles in every video.

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Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Sep 1, 2015 6:52 AM

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Russ H

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Sep 1, 2015 6:58 AM in response to smilesooner

Yes, you can copy and paste the titles from one project timeline to another, You could also create separate event or library specifically for the titles if you thought they might be re-purposed going forward – either on a dedicated timeline or as a compound clip.

Russ

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Sep 1, 2015 7:13 AM in response to Russ H

Thanks Russ.

Could you briefly let me know how I would do this. I don't need my hand held - I don't think, but I could not figure out how to do it on my own. I figured there had to be a way. FCPX is just too good to leave something like this to grunt, repetitive work.

Thanks!

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Russ H

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Sep 1, 2015 11:16 AM in response to smilesooner

A title is another form of a clip – computer-generated, and without clip audio, but still a clip. So you can copy it from one timeline and paste it to another as with any clip. You could make an empty project and copy the four title clips from your original timeline and paste in another timeline, That could be stored in a dedicated event or a dedicated library – just so you would;t spend a lot of time tracking it down when it was needed. An alternative way would be to create a compound clip from those title clips; that might help keep them together in the correct order.

Russ

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Sep 1, 2015 11:38 AM in response to Russ H

Ok then. Thanks Russ. That makes sense. That should work and cut down on the repetitive typing.

Thanks for the quick response. Great community here!

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