(You could also just move the playhead, but how boring is that?) But you already know how those work. Let me showcase a few controls that you may not have played with yet.īy default, as soon as you create a new Title in Premiere ( Cmd+T) the Title Editor opens and displays a window containing the timeline frame under the Playhead ready for you to start entering type.Ĭlick and drag the timecode indicator at the top of the window to change the image displayed in the window. While you can’t use it to create animated titles, it has features that even exceed Photoshop.Īll the standard text controls – font, size, alignment and letter spacing – are in the toolbar at the top.
The Title Editor in Premiere provides one of the most robust titling interfaces I’ve ever worked with. NOTE: Click here to see examples for each of these ten rules.
When creating projects for broadcast or cable, avoid fonts containing highly saturated colors or white levels greater than 100%.Avoid highly curved fonts, unless they are sized very large.Avoid fonts with very thin bars or serifs, unless they are sized very large.For SD video, avoid point sizes smaller than 24 points. In general, for HD fonts, avoid point sizes smaller than 20 points. Given the same amount of screen time, horizontal text is more readable than text at an angle or vertical.(If you are using really fanciful fonts, hold them on screen even longer.) Hold text on screen long enough for you to read it twice.Always add a drop shadow to text you want the audience read.If the audience can’t read the text, you’ve picked the wrong font. Improve the Look of Your Images and TextĪ few years ago, I wrote my ten rules for text in video:.
Guidelines for Great Text in Final Cut Pro HD.Since then, I’ve written about type a lot for example, these three articles: Working at Bitstream, a Boston type-foundry in the 1980’s, taught me my love of type. Video has much less resolution and is often viewed at smaller than actual size. However, working with text in video is not the same as text on the web or in print. Titles and text set an emotional tone for your project as much or more than your visuals.
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