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Here is a series of tutorials, by Andrew Devis for Creative Cow, on titling in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 editing system.
1. Basic titles
First of all, you need to know where to access the title creation window and how to configure it. Once we know this, we can have a first contact with the tool and start to see its possibilities, such as putting a reference background or writing in a specific area of the image.
2. Available options
In this tutorial you will learn how to handle the controls available in the titling tool, explaining exactly the function of each of its options. Among them you can see how to align, place and separate the letters of a text, change its size, add borders, shading, textures or a background that will be inserted as part of the title.
Finally, they explain how to add the title we have created to the timeline and add a transition to it.
3. Styles
In Premiere Pro it is possible to save a title as a “Style”, or in other words, memories. By doing so, we can use a previous title as a basis for creating new ones.
4. Export
It is also possible to export the title or as a template to be able to reuse it on later occasions. In the case of titles, they allow us to use them on any other machine or version of Premiere Pro, since it generates its own file. Templates, however, can only be used on the same computer but in different projects.
In this tutorial you will also see how to apply and modify the default presets.
5. Creation of titles on forms
Here we show how we can generate a title that is located on a shape or a path. To do this we will use the tools called “Path Type” and “Pen”, creating straight or curved lines and modifying the angulation and intensity of their points.
The shapes are set according to one of the text styles, and then modified as desired to fit the text inside them and, usually, in front of them.
6. Rollers
In these two videos you can see how to use the “Roll” mode, to create a roller that moves from bottom to top, and “Crawl”, to generate a text that moves from one side of the screen to the other.
Both work in a quite similar way, being necessary to delimit an area and establish a duration, whose speed can be modified at the beginning and at the end.
In addition, there are some issues that often lead to errors, which are explained in detail.
7. Create arrows
To end this series of tutorials, this last one shows how to create arrows through text in a very simple and completely customized way.
