How do you copy and paste text in graphic templates?

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April 26, 2020
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Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way but how do you copy and paste text in Graphic templates? Is this a bug or a feature? I've had to manually enter information.

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R Neil Haugen

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You can of course copy/duplicate a graphics "clip" on the sequence and paste that elsewhere in the sequence. As noted by Phillip, if you've made the graphics through the EGP but not saved as a mogrt, you can simply copy any line or group from the EGP's edit panel and paste onto another graphics clip Edit panel.

So ... which you're working with, and what you're doing to it ... matter for helping you.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Phillip Harvey

Community Expert

I'm not able to see the pic you tried to link.

It may depend on how the template is set up that you're trying to use. If it's simply presets created with Essential Graphics, then you can copy and paste the text layer (inside the Essential Graphics panel). If it's a .mogrt file, then you can only edit the parameters that have been assigned to the template. You can copy and paste the whole clip, but not individual parts of that clip.

RollmodlAuthor

Participant

I've tried pasting it in the timeline which doesn't work.

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Ali Jaber

Community Expert

SOLVED!!! It works, and it's so much more intuitively correctable if you avoid the Essential Graphics to paste text. And avoid the Effect Controls panel until you do the following: In the Text Panel, select the Graphics TAB. You will see all titles and their corresponding record time code locations (sweet!!!) Select the title you want to paste text into by left-clicking on it. DOUBLE click the title you wish to paste. Voila!!! The Effect Controls panel now has proper focus on the object (the text you just pasted), so any property changes you make to what you just pasted now will now work. Properties include justification, new line, font, font size, and so on. The Video/Motion dropdown properties in Effect Controls are now also editable: Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity etc.

Whew, what a ride!!!

Good to know that it's solved. What you want is to copy a text from an external text editor and paste it replacing an existing text in PPro. You can do that only in the Text panel, or in the Program monitor, in both you can highlight the text and do the paste.

The copy paste in the GEP and ECP are used to DUPLICATE an existing text, which clearly you don't want to do in your case. The paste command was disabled in your screenshots, because you have to copy the existing text layer and then the Paste will be enabled, where paste will create a duplicate of your selected text. I hope things are clear now...

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