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Working with SubCap Effect Stylesheets
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Working with SubCap Effect Stylesheets
You can save the current parameter values and information items for any SubCap effect clip
as a stylesheet. You can then apply the values from a stylesheet to any SubCap effect clip.
You can also set a stylesheet as the default to use when you create a new SubCap effect
clip — all of the parameter values and information items from the default stylesheet are used
as the initial values for the new effect clip, taking the place of the Avid-defined defaults.
Stylesheets let you maintain consistent formatting and metadata across many different
sequences and projects. For example, they ensure that the caption style is the same for every
episode of a television program or that every caption effect you create starts with the same
look.
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Caption stylesheets are XML files and are stored in a folder called Caption Effect
Stylesheets inside the AVX2_Plug-Ins folder in the application folder for your Avid editing
application. If you are comfortable editing XML files, you can edit caption stylesheets
directly in any text editor.
You manage SubCap effect stylesheets in the Stylesheets tab of the Global Properties dialog
box.
To create a new SubCap effect stylesheet:
1. Move the position indicator to the SubCap effect clip in the sequence that contains the
parameter values and information items you want to save, and ensure that the track
containing the effect is selected.
2. If it is not already open, open the Effect Editor, for example, by clicking the Effect
Mode button.
3. Click Edit Global Properties.
4. Click the Stylesheets tab.