Creating titles

You have two categories of titles available to you that you can include in your movies. You can choose from Classic Titles and Motion Titles. With Classic Titles you can select and add individual components as per your requirements. Motion Titles provide you with the convenience of customizable templates.

This article discusses Classic Titles. To work with motion titles, see Motion Titles.

To add a title, do one of the following:

• Position the current-time indicator at the point on the clip where you want to add the title. Select Text > New Text and choose Default Still, Default Roll, or Default Crawl.

• Position the current-time indicator on the clip to display it on the monitor panel. Drag a title template from the Classic Titles category in the Titles And Text panel and drop it on the Monitor Panel.

Superimposing titles

By default, when you create a new title, the title appears superimposed over the video clip at the position of the current-time indicator. However, you can choose to place it in an empty area of the Expert view timeline with no underlying video. Later, you can drag the title from the empty area onto a clip.

When you create a title in an empty area, Adobe Premiere Elements places it in the Video 1 track of the Expert view timeline and into the Title track in the Quick view timeline.

Create a still title

The titling tools in Adobe Premiere Elements are powerful, yet easy to use. You can use any font installed on your computer, and create graphic objects by using the shape creation tools. You can also use an included template, preset text style, or image. Title text can run horizontally or vertically. You can stretch or shrink titles, or give them a color or shadow.

The title is saved and added to the Project Assets panel, and to the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.

Create a title with animated text

You can easily apply a preset animation to any still title. Text animation presets quickly and easily animate the characters in your title so that they fade or pop characters into view, or fly in from the top or bottom of the screen. For example, using the Fade In By Characters preset instantly makes each separate character in your title fade into view until the title is complete.To preview an animation, position the pointer on the Animation tab in the Adjust panel.

Create a rolling or crawling title

Although static titles, graphics, and images may suffice for some projects, others require titles that move. Using roll and crawl options, you can instantly create professional-looking moving titles. The length of the title in the Quick view timeline determines the speed of the movement. The more you increase the title clip length, the slower the movement.

Rolling titles move characters vertically across the screen.

Crawling titles move characters horizontally across the screen.

Keyframes let you move characters across a custom path that you create by setting different position keyframes at several points in time.

Use Roll/Crawl options to change a rolling title to a crawling title or vice versa, specify the direction of a crawl, and set the timing of movement.

Create a rolling or crawling title

Set roll and crawl options

Create a title from a template

Some templates include graphic images that may be pertinent to your movie’s subject matter, such as new baby or vacation. Others include placeholder text that you can replace to create credits for your movie. Some templates have transparent backgrounds, depicted by black backgrounds, allowing you to see your video beneath the title. Others are completely opaque.

You can easily change every text or graphic object in the template by selecting the object and either deleting it or overwriting it. You can also add objects to the title. After you make modifications, your unique version of the title is saved with your project without affecting the template on which it’s based.

Apply online title templates

There are numerous title templates available online for Adobe Premiere Elements.To download and apply Title templates:

When you drag a Title template from the Title And Text panel on to a clip, Adobe Premiere Elements downloads the online content for the template. It then applies the downloaded content to the template.The blue bar on the top right corner on the content indicates the content is not downloaded.

Trim titles

To trim all instances of a title throughout a movie, use the Project Assets panel. To trim an individual instance of a title, select it in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. Trimming an instance affects the length of the title instance in the Expert view timeline. It does not affect the length of the original clip in the Project Assets panel.

Trim all instances of a title

Adobe Premiere Elements saves the trimmed title in the Project Assets panel.

Trim an individual title instance from the Expert view timeline