Text object title bars

grahamm7 wrote on 6/16/2020, 10:25 AM

I was told one of the easy way to create a new text object is to copy a previous one. When I am doing the lyrics to a song this is useful. After all the size, format of text etc. will be copied. However when you create a completely new text object the text is shown in the title bar of the object. If however you copy the text object from a previous text object it appears to keep the title bar from from the previous object. I have also sometimes used the template text objects with different fonts and sometimes it keeps the name of the orignial template font name as the title bar and not the edited new text I put it in. This area seems confusing to me particularly as one of the main things I am doing is producing video songs with lyrics.

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browj2 wrote on 6/16/2020, 1:10 PM

@grahamm7

Hi,

Yes, this happens if you change the text only in the Title editing dialogue box and is somewhat annoying. However, if you change the text in the box in the preview window by first double-clicking on it, the object will take on the new name. Try it to see.

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Former user wrote on 7/10/2020, 3:43 PM

browj2 just tried that, when i duplicated the text object in the timeline, the title stayed as it was previously even though i'd changed the text in the editing box but like you say when i double clicked on the object in the timeline it changed the objects title to the text i had written in the editing box, ya learn something new every day 😊👍