Quick Tip - Duplicate Legacy Titles in Premiere Pro
Channel: benX-edu
Date: 2020-10-21

Learn how to duplicate a title in Premiere Pro. Create a title template and reuse it multiple times and make slight adjustments to each copy & retain a common style.

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A common question most of us asked ourselves one day or another: 
"I'd like to make copies of an existing title, I want the copies to maintain the look and feel of the original title, but make slight changes to the copies. How can I do that?" 
Perhaps you have created your own text template and you would like to reuse it in your project, or you created a title with a specific font and a color and you want to reuse them in another title. If you just copy the original title from the timeline and paste elsewhere on your sequence, you'll quickly note that when you change the text of either the original title or one of the instances that you created when you pasted the copy, each instance of the text will change.

This will happen because the data of the titles you copied in the timeline is linked to a single source in the Project panel. So, in order to create an independent copy of your title, you'll need to navigate to the Project panel, find the title in the panel, duplicate the title inside the Project panel, and finally drag the duplicate to the timeline. This creates 2 instances that can be edited independently from each other.

Although this works perfectly, it requires a lot of steps! That's fine when you are working with a few titles only, but can become hairy when you have to duplicate many titles.

Here is a quick tip that will simplify the whole process!
Navigate to the Timeline and select the title that you want to duplicate, hit Alt (or Option on the Mac), and while you are holding that key, drag the title to the desired location on the timeline, and release the mouse and the key. This duplicates the source in the Project panel, and Premiere automatically generates 2 individual titles. 
And both can now be edited and are totally independent from each other.


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