In order to ease the transition from an established Legacy Titler workflow to an Essential Graphics workflow, we have added two new commands that allow you to upgrade your Legacy Titles into Source Graphics in the latest Beta build of Premiere Pro. You can access these commands through keyboard shortcuts or through the top Graphics menu:
• Upgrade Legacy Title
• Upgrade All Legacy Titles
What are Source Graphics?
 
Source Graphics are a kind of Essential Graphic that behave similar to Legacy Titles in the sense that
- they have a project item,
- you can track usage through the metadata column for Video Usage and
- edits made to the project item or an associated track item will ripple edits through all track items.
Note that Source Graphics do not support rolls or Responsive Design Time. By the way, any Essential Graphic can be turned into a Source Graphic through the "Upgrade to Source Graphic" command in the Graphics menu (make sure the focus is on the timeline).
Upgrade Instructions
In order to upgrade a single Legacy Title into a Source Graphic:
- select the Legacy Title in the Project Panel and execute the Upgrade Legacy Title command.
- This will add a Source graphic with the suffix "-Upgraded" to the Project panel and replace all instances of the Legacy Title on tracks with the Source Graphic.
- This action is undoable.
In order to upgrade All Legacy Titles into Source Graphics:
- Make sure the focus is on the Project Panel, and execute the "Upgrade All Legacy Titles" command.
If you want to compare the upgraded Source Graphic to your Legacy Title, you can duplicate your Legacy Title on the track and only upgrade one of the copies in the project panel. This way you can do a side by side comparison and get a feeling for how your Legacy Titles upgrade.
 
 
What to expect
We have done our best to get the conversion as good as possible, however it is advised that you quality-check the upgraded graphics, since not all characteristics of a Legacy Title will translate. The main things that will not come over are shapes, rolls, crawls, tracking and rotation. With other characteristics you might see small differences, such as the spreads of gradients, strokes or the thickness of fonts.
Here a list of what to expect:
What we are translating:
* = might look noticeably different under certain conditions
** = most likely will need to be redone because it looks very different
Character settings:
• The Glyphs of the text
• Fill color and visibility
• Font
• Font Size
• Font Style
• Shadow substring (e.g. different shadows on different characters will take the shadow of the first character and apply it to the whole text)**
• Radial/Linear Text Gradient substring (same as with shadow substring)**
• Outer strokes
• Underline
• Kerning
• Baseline shift
• Small Caps
• Cap Sizes (note, we always translate to the default 75%)**
• Just Width Scale**
• Just Height Scale**
• Vertical box text**
• The positioning of multiple lines when there are different font sizes used**
• Text box wrapping*
Layer settings:
• Position/Alignment
• MENA/Indic
• Hindi Digits
• Leading
• Shadow*
• Linear and Radial Gradients*
• Vertical text*
• Sheen*
Track items filters:
- Shapes (rectangle and ellipse work well, other shapes will need to be redone)
- Motion and Motion keyframes
- Opacity and Opacity keyframes
- Effects and Effects keyframes
What we are NOT translating. These characteristics will be missing completely from the source graphic after the upgrade:
• Rolls
• Crawls
• Slant
• Fill types other than solid, linear and radial
• Inner Strokes
• Texture
• Background
• Distort
• Rotation
• Shapes
• Right to Left text
• Track Label Colors
• Tracking
• Tab Width/Stops
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