Create, edit, and save titles in Premiere Pro

The Legacy Titler has a long history in Premiere Pro and was used to create titles, credits, and simple animated compositions. It had some limitations which have been improved upon with a comprehensive text and graphics toolset in the Essential Graphics panel. The new tools allow you to:

• Work in the Program Monitor, so that you can design and animate directly on the video images
• Use familiar Adobe design tools, such as Rulers and Guides, snapping, and text, line, and shape tools
• Incorporate graphics files (such as logos) and save them with your designs
• Save titles and animations as editable Motion Graphics templates (.mogrt files) for easy re-use and sharing
• Save and share Rulers and Guides setups as templates for consistent design across projects and teams

The Essential Graphics panel allows you to both create your own titles and animations and work with existing designs:

• Open and customize advanced Motion Graphics templates authored in After Effects
• Source professionally-designed Motion Graphics templates from Adobe Stock
• Share Motion Graphics templates from your Creative Cloud Libraries (within the Essential Graphics panel)

All of this provides a more modern approach to working with text and graphics in Premiere Pro for greater efficiency, design consistency, and enabling collaboration with colleagues.

Learn more about creating titles and animations with the new Essential Graphics tools.

Using the Legacy Titler

We recommend using the new titling tools in the Essential Graphics panel for all new projects. However, if needed, you can still access the Legacy Titler for legacy projects and workflows.  

The Legacy Titler is a collection of related panels. You can close the panels within the Titler without closing the Titler. You can dock the panels to each other or to other parts of the interface.

You can load more than one title into the Titler. You can choose the title you want to view by choosing its name in the Title tab menu. You can reopen a title when you want to change it or to duplicate it and base a new version on it.

Create a title from scratch, or use a copy of an existing title as a starting point.

Create a title based on the current title

Create a title in Indic language

Premiere Pro includes support for Indic languages, such as Hindi. You can now create titles using Indic text.

The Premiere Pro Titler supports text composition in the following languages:

• Latin and western scripts
• Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages
• Indian languages

In Premiere Pro, the World-Ready composer is integrated with Titler. You can call the Indic text engine and set a title for a project. Any subsequent title you create within that project uses the Indic text engine.

The Indic text engine supports the following Indian languages:

• Bengali
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Oriya
• Punjabi
• Tamil
• Telugu

Import a title file

You can import a title file as you would any other source file.

Export a title as an independent file

You can export titles as independent files that use the .prtl filename extension.

When you create a Master Style, a thumbnail image of the style gets added to your project panel. Click drag this thumbnail onto one or more graphic objects in the timeline to update all the text layers in that graphics at once.

You can also update individual text layers of a title to a particular style by selecting the text layer in the Essential Graphics panel, then choosing the desired Master Style from the drop-down list.

About safe margins in the Titler

The title-safe and action-safe margins in the drawing area of the Titler designate the safe zones. These margins are enabled by default.

Safe zones are useful when you edit for broadcast and videotape. Most TVs overscan the picture. Overscanning places the outer edges of the picture outside the viewing area. The amount of overscanning is not consistent across TVs. To ensure that everything fits within the area that most TVs display, keep text within the title-safe margins. Keep all other important elements within the action-safe margins.

Choose, create, and import title templates

The title templates included with Premiere Pro provide numerous themes and preset layouts that make it quick and easy to design a title. Some templates include graphics pertinent to certain subjects, such as new-baby or vacation themes. Others include placeholder text that you can replace to create credits for your movie. Some templates have transparent backgrounds, represented by dark gray and light gray squares. You can see your video beneath the title. Other templates are opaque.

You can easily change any element in the template by selecting the element and either deleting it or overwriting it. You can also add elements to the template. After you modify the template, you can save it as a title file for use in current and future projects. Alternately, you can save any title you create as a template.

You can also import title files from another Premiere Pro project as templates. If you share templates between computers, make sure that each system includes all the fonts, textures, logos, and images used in the template.

If you do not have title templates, see this document. After following instructions, your title templates will be restored.

Load a template for a new title

Import a saved title file as atemplate

Set or restore a default template

Rename or delete a template

Create a template from an open title

Show video behind the title

You can view a frame of footage in the drawing area as you create the title. Viewing the frame helps you place elements in your title. The video frame is for your reference only; it is not saved as part of the title.

Use the timecode controls in the Titler to specify the frame you want to display. The Titler displays the frame under the current-time indicator in the active sequence. Setting the frame in the Titler also moves the current-time indicator in the Program Monitor and Timeline panel. Moving the current-time indicator in the Program Monitor or Timeline panel changes the frame displayed in the Titler.