Where does text live?

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July 6, 2021
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As a sometime self-taught hobbyist, I learned in earlier versions to make text by right clicking in the Project pane and selecting New Item -> Text (or something similar I forget). Then after formatting, the text would appear in the Project panel where I could easily sort it into a Text folder, and I could drag and drop it where I wanted it in the Timeline.

As I'm sure you all know, now text isn’t available in the New Item menu. Apparently PP CC forces us to create text by selecting the text tool and clicking in the Program Monitor. Then once formatted, it doesn’t seem to exist anywhere else except on the Timeline. Where does it live?

Now I can’t sort text into a Text folder, and I can’t duplicate a previous extensively formatted text block and easily change only the words and drag it into the Timeline where I want.

How to go back to the old way where I can organize each text block as a separate item in a Text folder in the Project panel? (And why did Adobe need to change that?)

How to

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R Neil Haugen

Legend

I second Warren's comment to avoid Legacy at this time. As they've now "given" us the tool to convert parts of Titles to mogrts/graphics, I would suspect the 2022 version may not have the Legacy Titler at all.

The comments so far have totally skipped how you save graphics/text items now. It ain't rocket science, and it's been in every tutorial and such for several years.

Any text you've created is it's own item on the timeline, right? You are supposed to be controlling those between the Essential Graphics Panel (EGP) and the Effects Control Panel (ECP). However, the organizational tools are in the EGP ... and mgrenadier avoiding the EGP means he's missing how to organize the blame things.

They are stored either in CC Libraries or on a local disk in a folder. And organized/searched/accessed via the EGP Browse panel.

CC LIbraries allows you of course to access them from any machine you sign in on ... and to share with anyone else permitted to access that Library. It's an excellent way to distribute to a team or a company's departments, for example.

Local Folders means they're stored on a drive in a folder you specify.

Either way, you again organize/search/utilize them via the EGP.

Yea, I wish we could use a bin ... but ah well, tons of us have requested that, and they finally say they are looking at that option.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

you can drag the text clip from the timeline to your project... and organize to your hearts content.

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TheOriginal150mphAuthor

Inspiring

I can grab the text in the timeline but the cursor turns to the "not allowed/strike-through" hand-grabber once it leaves the timeline pane.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

you're right (sorry about that) but you can copy and paste into another timeline and save that timeline and you can save your text as a preset and you can explore the essential graphics window (which I've never bothered with - I use photoshop to create any complex title). If you control click on the title in the timeline you can export as a motion graphics template (which again I haven't explored). Probably otherways as well...

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