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BillVincent
BillVincent
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May 1, 2017
Question

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
jstrawn
Legend
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.

europac
europac
Known Participant
May 5, 2017

When you open the "Legacy" title program - it does  NOT have the templates saved in it.  There is no option to select the saved templates.  Where are they - your instructions are not valid.

I am not sure, that you understand what the saved templates are.

jstrawn
jstrawn
Legend
May 23, 2017

Allow me to add my voice of disenchantment to the chorus of boos Adobe gets for this upgrade.

Sure, perhaps the new Essential Graphics panel will be the absolutely greatest thing since sliced bread and The Beatles, but your instructions as to how to find templates we've previously designed with the old Title Tool stink. And not in the way of a fine French cheese.

I have a subtitle format which I created for the producers of my show, but which I couldn't find this morning when they wanted it.

It doesn't make me look good when you hide these in your rush to update the Title Tool feature.


obpadobecc867459048  wrote

your instructions as to how to find templates we've previously designed with the old Title Tool stink.

In Previous versions of PrPro (10.4 or earlier), Titler templates could be exported as .prtl files from within the Titler panel > Templates dialog to the destination of your choosing. There is no way for us to know the destination you chose, but if you search for .prtl files you should be able to find them if they still live on that same system. Once you import them, you can 2x click a Title item in the Project Panel or Timeline to open it in the legacy Titler. You can then edit and use them as you would have in previous versions. You just won't be able to export newly modified versions of them a templates. For that you need to use version 10.4 or earlier, which you can run concurrently with 11.1.1. or later. Otherwise, you can rebuild the ones you really like as .mogrt files, using the copy and paste method I described above as a shortcut.

A .prsl file is for Titler Text Styles, which is quite different than exported Titles (.prtl files). Custom Style Libraries (.prsl) can be saved and loaded from within the Titler but are not imported into projects like media. This is not anything new. --> Using text styles in the Premiere Pro Titler

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