Changing all text boxes from one style to another

Videot wrote on 9/4/2004, 8:32 PM
If you have several lots of titles from generated media on the timeline &
you wish to do something like change the color of the text & add an outline to the text can this be done all in one go or do I have to do it one item at a time? I was hoping for something along the lines of paste event attributes.

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jetdv wrote on 9/4/2004, 9:18 PM
One at a time!
johnmeyer wrote on 9/5/2004, 12:02 AM
You may want to join the group rant over in this thread:

Wishlist: Vegas' Titler

Vegas is an awesome application, but everything related to titling is second rate.

And, in answer to your question, there is no way I know of (and if Ed -- jetdv -- doesn't know, then it can't be done).
Grazie wrote on 9/5/2004, 12:15 AM
Strange - isn't it?

OK . . much of what I do in Vegas I can adapt and adopt. I can change my mind on how something looks and moves through a sequence. I can Copy and Paste "after" my creative "moment" has happened. I want an FX to appear somewhere elese? I just do Copy and Paste Attributes - GREAT STUFF! But then when it comes to doing something "simple" as applying the "same" text style to several text boxes - no. . .. Weird? Well maybe and maybe not . .. YES I would really like to have this "feature" available for Text boxes .. until it is included in an update - I aint holdiong my breath on this one - I've had to take a serious view on this and bite the bullet with the following.

Veags is real neat at creating "Presets" - you can preset all sorts of things : FXs; Moves and Audio and all sorts of stuff. Yup, you got it! You can either do a bit of pre-planning and you can create your own "Home-grown" presets for a text sequence to be sued for a project. Bonus here is that those same Text Presets WILL be available in your next project - doing Copy Paste Atribs WONT be - yeah? If you like the look and feel of a Text effect, save it as a Preset - then bring this new Preset back onto the t/l and start imopirting or typing from there - easy really. So that's plus - yeah? . .

What else? Of yes, I've also used the Copy text event and edited the "New" text box to what I want it to "say".

Another one I've thought of doing but haven't had too, is that you could create a "MyTxtEffects2004.veg" containing "saved" must have text boxes and open this up in the future! There you would have your own library of Text boxes ready to go .. . nbit like Text Presets . . but if you want it separate in another VEG you got that option too! - Neat?

So, there are - 2 options for you . .. others will come up with alternatives to this - But yes, I also "feel" that the Copy>Paste Attribs. NOT happenning for Text a bit confusing. AND my favourite: The Greyed-Out Synch Cursor button ... left hand corner of the Text box mini-timeline .. see it? Yup, that's the one . . .nice! Seems quite lonley . . all greyed out and no where to go, or do!

.. just to say that I've had some of my original TExt Presets follow me thru' from my VideoFactory [ circa 2000 ] to Vegas! Now that's neat . . . .

Grazie
PeterWright wrote on 9/5/2004, 1:08 AM
I posted a similar question recently - as Ed Troxel pointed out, if you know you may change your mind about colour, put a child track containing the colour underneath the text track, so it shows through the lettering, then you can change the lot in one hit.

Changing Font. style etc - not so easy ....
Fleshpainter wrote on 9/5/2004, 1:51 AM
Work around... when making these events up, make the first one the way you want it, then copy/paste-paste-paste etc. in the proper places, then just go back and change the text.
TorS wrote on 9/5/2004, 4:32 AM
Open the first text event you want to change. Change it and save it as a preset. Open the next, apply the preset, press Ctrl-a to highlight all text, write the right words, and you're done. If you have several typefaces/sizes, don't use Ctrl-a but select each type and then write the new words. If you have keyframes, it gets even more complicated, but this is a good starting point in any case.
Tor