Instructor: In this tutorial we'll learn how to use the
Adobe Premier Pro Title Creator
to create title cards, or any type of title for your video.
To create a new title, just click this New Item button
and click Title.
It's going to ask you to name that title,
and choose the width and the height
which will be set to the sequence settings that you are on.
So for us it's 640 by 360.
I'm going to call this Ice Bucket
just so that I know what it is.
It's going to be a title that actually appears over
the clips
here,
where Anthony is doing the Ice Bucket Challenge.
So you saw that this title editor pops out
when you create that new title,
and to get to that title editor when you're not
having it open, you can just double click any title.
So, here I have this title under graphics.
I might even create a new bucket called Titles
put that in that bucket,
and double click it.
And that opens up the title editor.
Let's go around this and I'll just walk you through
what these different options are.
Then we'll go head and create a title for this.
Up on the top left, you have a lot of control settings.
So you have your selection, your text tool,
shape tool so that you can add shapes
to your actual title graphics,
and some other ones that might come in handy as well.
At the top, these are your font settings
and your text settings.
Cuz when you do start creating texts
it will pop up with the choices there.
Over on the right you have Title Properties
which include more properties.
I'll go through those in a second
when we add our text.
At the bottom you have pre-set title styles.
On the left bottom you have align tools.
Let's go head and look at it.
So if I just click in the middle with my text tool selected,
and then I start typing,
say Anthony's Ice Bucket
Challenge
Video,
and I'm typing but it's going off the screen.
So I have to make this smaller.
So up here at the top you have your font size.
So, just like, really, in any other text editor on
like on Microsoft Word or any other editor
you have your size up here.
You have your font choice over here, too.
So, let's say, make this something a little bit more clean.
And then you have these same options
over here on the right, too, some of them.
Like our font family,
the font style, regular, bold, italics, size, aspect,
Carrane, leading, tracking, baseline shift.
These are all things that
if you're familiar with regular text editors,
you'll be familiar here as well.
So we have to make this a little bit smaller,
and then change the colour.
So for now, let's just change the colour
from white to black
just by clicking the colour picker down here.
On the right you also have other options for opaste.
Say we want this to be a little less opaque
we can add strokes to it.
So if we want an outer stroke to maybe make it
stand out a little bit more
we can make it do that.
When I click that Add Stroke button,
this new stroke options popped up.
You can change the colour of the stroke to
maybe red, or something like that to make it stand out.
You can increase the size of the strokes
to really make it stand out.
And the stroke has all their own setting, too,
for opaste,
size,
if you want it on the edge,
depth, drop face.
These are things to play around with
just to see what they look like yourself.
Drop shadow, I'm just going to delete that stroke.
So I'm just going to say Delete.
Drop shadow, this is another thing help
your text stand out from the background,
depending on what it is.
With the drop shadow you have
options like the colour, the opaste, the angle,
the distance from the text,
the size of the shadow,
or the spread, how much does it fade
verse how sharp or hard the edges are?
So these are a lot of options just to look through
as you start designing your own titles,
and it's good to know they're there.
We can move our text around just like so.
We can even increase or decrease the size
just by clicking on the corner.
And increasing or decreasing the size
to lock the aspect ratio so it doesn't get squished,
or really spread out.
Just press the shift button on the keyboard
while you click the corner and drag up or down.
I mentioned these title styles down below.
Let's just click on one of those and see what happens.
Boom, it adds a bunch of styles.
Really something you could have done
with the title properties over the right,
but there's just a lot of pre-set styles
that you can choose if you want to use one of these styles.
I usually just come up with my own style.
And some of these are a little bit too dramatic
a little to
to extreme for me, so
I usually go with something a little bit cleaner.
Let's go head and add a shape.
So I'm gonna click this rectangle tool,
and then I'm going to set the colour and
we'll just keep it at black.
And I'm just going to draw,
drag out and draw this rectangle down here.
Then I'm going to select my text with the selection tool.
And change the colour of the text to white.
Now, it's hard to see it,
so let me just move it up here so you can see it.
Let's play around with these alignment tools.
If I select both of these layers,
the shape layer and the text layer
by selecting one and shift clicking the other one,
look what happens when I click
this horizontal, centre button.
They're aligned horizontally centred.
If I do the vertical centre, too,
they are now on top of each other,
but the black
is on top of the text.
I want this to go to the back, so I can just right click,
say Arrange, and say send back.
The reason why I want this shape is so that
the black, or the white text stands out from the background
even more.
So I'm just going to make this shape a little bit bigger.
Then I'm going to select both layers again,
click that vertical centre and horizontal centre,
and then move this down to the bottom left of this clip.
When I'm happy with my title,
I can just click this exit button right here.
Then I'll take this Ice Bucket text right here,
drag it on to a new layer
above the video clip that I wanna add it to.
And so, now, if I zoom in here
you can see this clip,
this title will play over these clips right here.
And I can extend it over to the right,
and also just copy and past this cross dissolve
to the text layer itself.
So, select it, Command C,
Command V,
Control for you PC users,
and there you go.
A nice title that explains what happening in the video,
if people don't know,
and especially for something so short like this,
you might need some titles to give some more description,
and it stands out from the background.
That's the hardest thing when you're adding titles
to a video to make sure that they stand out
from the background.
Sometimes you can get away with it
by just making the text a lot bigger,
adding a drop shadow or a stroke.
Other times, you need some sort of
shape layer behind the text.
To get back and edit this title,
we can double click from the timeline itself,
or double click the Ice Bucket title
in the programme window itself.
So, that's the Title Editor.
Go head and start adding a couple of titles to your project.
I recommend just adding one or two,
just to get the hang of it.
Play around with the Title Editor.
If you have any questions, let me know.
I'll be sure to answer anything
that I didn't go over in this video,
and expand upon it in the answer.
Or even create more tutorials on how to use it.
Thanks so much, and we'll see you in the next lessons.