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 text you want the audience to read, be sure the text contrasts in shape, texture, color and gray scale from the background.

Even today, not all displays show the entire image. When creating projects for the web, keep text inside Action Safe.

When creating projects for broadcast or cable, keep all text inside Title Safe.

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.

Once you become an advance User at Premiere Pro I am sure you will want to have better transitions so you can impress your clients, family… below a screenshot how to import.Titles and text set an emotional tone for your project as much or more than your visuals. How to Add new Premiere Pro transitions presets ? – Drag the transition between your 2 Clips How to add a Premiere video transitions to your project? You can also preview the Premiere Pro video transitions on the youtube video below

Text transitions in premiere pro