How can I keep created colors with simple text or other items to use with multiple projects?

Version 20.04.12

To make some simple text descriptions, I open a color (transparent) and then apply the simple text filter. This gives me a short clip on the timeline, wherever I want.

I use this clip multiple times in one project (with slight modifications), and also would need them within multiple projects. Can I somehow make these clips a playlist item, to easily grab them when required, and can I somehow move these clips to another project (without exporting as a Video file, because I require to be able to edit the text ans some other things)…

Thanks for looking!

Hi @GIS!
To begin, you can click on “Open other” --> “Text” and then you can write the text you want. After that you can drag&drop your text into the timeline. I think it’s more simple than your way of doing. However, I think the easiest way to do this is to create a new project, create your text and then export it to reopen it in your project.
Does that answer your question?

Thank you Tony. If I do it the way you suggest, and export my text, I assume You mean to export as a Video clip? This would not be in my interest, because I want to keep the option to edit parts of the text later on…

I think it is not possible to drag a clip in the playlist to re-edit it after, but I don’t know…
I think the better is to create a text clip with the way of doing I told you before and copy and paste as many times as it will be useful to you…

Save the text with the parameters that you want to re-use as a preset. That way you can use them in any project and modify them if needed.

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You can also Create a new text clip and drag it in the playlist…

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