Formatting text for pasting into credit roll - bold, centered, tabs, etc..

[lorilinstruth]

Hi Everyone,

I am tasked with creating a very long credit roll. I understand the basics, but oh man, the formatting is making me crazy. Here is my question:

Are there any tricks for formatting my original text document so that PP will respect the formatting when I paste in the text? For example, keeping paragraph alignment, right/left justified tabs, bold, italics, etc? Anything at all? I am having to do so much manual formatting after I paste...and the formatting the credits author did in the original document (tabs, etc.) is just making everything a much bigger headache.

Thanks in advance for any tips,

Lori

[Ann Bens]

What is your original text document?

If you have access to Photoshop.......

[lorilinstruth]

Thanks, Ann. I get the credit info as a word doc.

It's such a mess. They want some credits centered, some with right/left justified tabs with the text on the right normal style and the text on the left bold, etc. There are about 300 lines total. There has to be a simple way to do this (if not, it's a business opportunity for somebody).

[Ann Bens]

300 lines is a lot. I would not do that in Pr.

Download Photosop. Trial version works 7 days.

[lorilinstruth]

I'm on the full CC plan and use PS a lot for photo editing. But not for working with text-heavy docs. No idea how I'd approach working on a big text document in PS.

I was hoping to get some guidance based on my original question about what kind of formatting I can expect to carry over from a text editor when pasting into PP. No worries, I'll figure it out on my own through trial and error. 

Note  for me next year when I have to do this again and start Googling: If you want the type of credits that are in two columns, with the left column right justified and vice versa, do your original doc in TABLES in your word processor. That way you can select the right and left sides, and paste them into boxes in the graphics editor. Make master styles for left, right and any centered texts you want. You still have to line stuff up manually, but it's really the only way I've found to do it. (Greater minds feel free to chime in!).

It appears that there is no way to put right/left justified or centered tabs into PP, so doing it that way in your word processor is setting you up for a frustrating experience.

[Michael Grenadier]

well I don't know a successful way of keeping the formatting, but I often find it useful to remove all formatting before I paste in Premiere.  Simplest way I know to do that is to paste into text edit, select all the text and go to format:  make plain text.