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BillVincent
BillVincent
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May 1, 2017
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Where are my old title templates?

  • May 1, 2017
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Since a new PP upgrade that now integrates titles into Premiere directly, I no longer can find or access my title templates, which are numerous and represent hours of painstaking work. I have tried making sense of the post/solution around seeing your old title templates in Media Browser, but still cannot find where they actually resided on my computer in order to see or import them into a project.

Adobe, seriously... if you are going to change something so drastically that it takes a series of steps outlined in support post, at least be specific so we can follow it - it literally says this:

  • Create a new Project in Premiere Pro.
  • Import your title templates into the Project panel and save the project.

Great - so WHERE are the legacy templates so I can import them??? If I could have found them in any way, shape or form, I would have done so without the help of this non-helpful support post. You provide no folder info, no path, no nothing. I'm stuck. Please help - and could you be a bit more specific this time?

Thank you.

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jstrawn
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jstrawnCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 1, 2017

I'm not sure what you mean by your 'old title templates'. If you mean...

Legacy Title Styles - go to File > New > Legacy Title... to create a new legacy title. Then open it from the project panel and your title should open in the legacy titler window with the old Styles and other features still intact, asp per CC 2016.n and earlier.

Importing Saved Title Files as Template - Use the regular Import dialog or the media browser to find and import existing .prtl file(s) you would like to use as templates. Then 2x click to open and edit them within the Legacy titler as needed. If you are not sure where you saved your old titles, can you maybe find them by searching for .prtl using your OS search features?

Live Text Templates - older formats like acap and aecap templates should still import and function using the same workflow you would have used in previous versions. You will still need to enable them as templates in AE first, and that the text layers are not locked in AE.

Hopefully that is enough to get you moving again and I will try to check back later to provide more info. In any case, I can tell you that the legacy title features have not been removed for PrPro 11.1, they have just been hidden a bit. Also, we believe users will find Essential Graphics and Motion Graphic Templates should be a superior workflow going forward, which includes the Exporting and usage of MOGRTs.

BillVincent
BillVincentAuthor
Participating Frequently
May 1, 2017

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, by "old title templates I mean saved Title Files that had been saved as presets. I will try searching .prtl to find them. (ed. note - I did find them after searching .prtl - you should ADD THIS to the instructions for importing the old titles! I did not know the extension to search on, and I'm sure there are others who don't know either).

I can appreciate the moving forward with the new workflow - however being able to still use presets/templates we users spent lots of time creating should be easier than this. At the very least a one-time dialog asking to import the old presets/templates would be nice, so they could then be accessed in the current tool.

    andymees@aje
    andymees@aje
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    May 2, 2017

    I have this same question. I ended up finding my template titles using the .prtl search (Thanks for the tip BillVincent). But do we now have to import the presets we want to use into a project every time we want to use them?? This sounds like a pain in the butt to be honest. Is there no other way to have them readily available in Premiere Pro always??

    Thank you in advance!


    But do we now have to import the presets we want to use into a project every time we want to use them?? This sounds like a pain in the butt to be honest. Is there no other way to have them readily available in Premiere Pro always??

    It's actually pretty easy... just use the Media Browser panel to navigate to your Templates directory,  them save that location (in the Media Browser panel) as a 'Favorite'.  Now they're just a click away.

    Would it have been kinder if they had added a facility to browse legacy templates in the Essential  Graphics panel?  Yes,  obviously... but I  suspect the intent is to move us forward.

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