Preset title length

Is there anyway to preset the title length in iMovie 08?
Every time I add a title it is between 3 and 5 minutes long. Can't I set the length before I add it?
Thanks

I think you mean 3 to 5 seconds, however:-
It's impractical to set a default title duration for a number of reasons, one being that different titles take different times to read. I'm not sure whether im08 tries to adjust the title duration for a particular situation but adjusting the duration of a title manually once it is added is just something you need to do.

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Has anyone ever written code to make JTabbedPane tab titles shorten automatically when there isn't room for all of them in one row?
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I have an 8 core 22GB Mac Pro. I am using proxy video. I have audio waveforms turned off. I have a lot of titles to update, but I cannot update the text in a reasonable amount of time because there is a 1.5 second delay per character when I try to type text into any title. I believe this has always been like this, but it hasn't bothered so much because I normally only have 1 or 2 titles per project anyway. Now I am editing some projects that are very title intensive so it is almost impossible to do this.
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i Background
image in a preset Title. Unfortunately, I have never found any way to edit a PRTL (Title) file - Photoshop (and nothing else that I have found) will not do it.
However, the best way to do this is to find a a "blank" Title, where you like the style of the text and use it over any "background" image that you want, thus creating the same effect.
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For Ed, this is how I'd recommend creating your CC Titles. In the Titler, you can create various Shapes below your text to get what I think you are asking for.
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PE's Titler is nice, but lacks some power. P-Pro's is not that much different, or better. The "library" Titles, etc., are often good starting points, but one can do so very much more in Photoshop (even the PSE version), that I find it to be a better tool, when doing anything out of the ordinary.
There are also 3rd party Titlers, like Bluff Titler and ProDAD's Heroglyph Titler. These really come into their own when one is animating the Titles. For general purpose Titles, I always go to Photoshop. These can also have a little animation, just nothing quite like the 3rd party apps. Actually, PE's text-animation tools do more than P-Pro can do without a lot of manually placed Keyframes.
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