Create a Title Page | Discover Dorico

In this live session, we’ll look at how to create a title page and other front matter for your projects using page templates, and how you can then quickly reuse your designs in other projects.

0:00 Intro
1:50 Session start
4:25 Editing the flow header
5:23 Editing the First page template
5:45 Making a title page template
7:50 Adding a text frame
8:25 Adding Project Info
9:40 Adding text tokens for the project information
10:35 Creating paragraph styles
13:35 Adding a graphics frame
13:50 Copy page layout to right-hand page
14:10 Add the title page using the template
15:05 Starting the music using the First page template (in Layout Options)

16:40 Making a blank page template
17:00 Creating blank pages for front matter pages

19:00 Adding text frames for individual cases (page overrides)
19:15 Creating shortcuts/key commands for Edit Frames, Edit Graphically etc buttons

21:00 Adding small musical excerpts in front matter
21:45 Add a new flow
23:00 Adding page numbers in specific places as part of a page template
25:00 Adding music excerpts (continued)
25:55 Removing extra flows from the main music frames
27:00 Adding a music frame - adding the excerpt flow as front matter
28:18 Changing staff size of excerpt
28:30 Removing staff labels from excerpt

31:00 Parts - title page
31:00 Hide invisibles
32:00 Import the title page from score to parts
32:35 Check the constraints/sizes of the text and graphics frames (important when pages are different sizes)
35:08 Import page template
35:55 Edit depending on page size
36:00 Editing frames with mouse or keyboard
37:00 Duplicate and edit paragraph styles
37:35 Edit page templates, not directly on the part!
38:38 Quickly add template to another part

41:15 Exporting templates to use in other projects
43:45 Importing a page template set
44:15 Be careful with the Current Set menu
44:45 Import page template into the current set
45:20 Add the title page
45:50 Check page size

47:20 Importing other paragraph styles

48:30 Questions from the live chat
51:20 Instrumentation/Player list token
54:05 Save as a project template to use from the Hub

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[karinacomposer]

Almost two years of constant use of Dorico and I still come back and find these videos absolutely useful for whatever I happen to be stuck with. Thanks always John!

[ToXball]

Another great tutorial explained with great clarity and sympathy. I'm a very happy user of Dorico for a few years now, version 5 is superlative. Thank you :)

[dennislarson]

Thanks so much for this video! While I thought I understood page templates pretty well, this opened up a whole new chapter in using templates more effectively (without manual overrides). Kudos to you and the whole team!

[musicgeek]

These sessions are so useful. Thanks so much!

[shelleyfostergurin]

Thanks John! I'm new to Dorico coming from Finale. ALL of your videos have been extremely helpful, including this one.

[ceescoenen]

This is a big session John, also after 10 months :) Learn a lot in this hour.

[MorisoniProductions]

Thanks for this invaluable resource, so well and thoroughly explained. Much appreciatec!

[jitsukerr]

This is so much better than it used to be -- but working with frames is still Intensely annoying if you're expecting standard controls to work. You can't select multiple frames and then apply changes to them all; you can't copy and paste a frame or duplicate a text frame; you can't format text within a text frame independently of other text in that frame. I hope these standard text and string manipulation actions are on the roadmap!

[carlosg.bermudo]

Thank you so much for the video! Would it be possible for you to share a link with a Dorico file example of a project with a title page?

[valerka.composer]

Curiously, when I create this title page it doeasn`t show the text... so the template and layout is kinda created, but the text is just not visible...
Hopefully I am going find an answer at Steinberg Forum

[maestrorulez]

one small thing I am missing is for longer titles. It has happened to me a few times, that I had a longer title and needed to split it into 2 lines at a specific place (requested by the editor). I would wish there was a way to define in the project info where there should be a line break in a title or subtitle. until now I always had to work around using extra tokens...no super big deal but I still hope this can get optimised...

[franzcomposer]

In a project we are working on, is it possible to use a clipboard folder as is done in Sibelius? Or do you have to collect them in a flow and retrieve them from time to time? If so, is there already a tutorial?

[NedimERTUNA]

I use Dorico Element 5. The right zone definitely does not open in engrave mode. I couldn't find how to open it either. Is it related to the settings? I do ctrl+9 but it doesn't work. So I couldn't create a title page!....

[j.j.hagelsieb]

Great video!! I have one question: If I have multiple WW or Brass of the same instrument, the "instrumentation lists" tocken put it every flute and every trumpet separately (Flute 1, Flute 2, Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, etc.); so, is there a way to "condense" them (2 Flutes, 2 Trumpets, etc.) in the instrumentation list tocken?

[fabriciolanzillotti]

Hello, how can I make a ligature by prolonging a quarter note to an already written eighth note, without getting the quarter note with a dot? Thank you so much

[fretsnreeds]

I followed this tutorial on my own template but no index page appears, I had changed flow headings to never? Ive tried a few settings but can't seem to get the index page to show.

[emilawad]

It´s common practice to start the music on page 1, and that has to be an odd Arabic number after the front matter pages (usually Roman numerals pages).

[lkoouqz]

When I to write-click on my "musical excerpt" int he "front matter", the "page size" options are grayed out, and custom is not visible at all. And this is true in everything I open in Dorico Pro 5.1.32.2114 . The right-click functionality for staff size is grayed out in every project I open. Also, when you use this feature, what other layouts doe sit affect? Would it affect the part layouts in the orchestral score? Because the manual says it affects layouts project-wide.

[frankthemusicteacher]

I learned that it takes 58 minutes to teach someone how to create a Title Page in Dorico 5.

[tbabcock]

I've allowed adverts on YouTube (adblock and ghostery) but the content fails to load. What's going on?