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Creating crawling text with various opacity
Howdy Cow Users,
I am trying to create several different lines of left to right crawling text in Premiere Pro. This is for engineering development use and not something practical needed for any real edit situation. I would like to create 3 lines of crawling text one line above the other.
The bottom line would have crawling text with a solid black background. The middle line would have crawling text with a 50% opaque background. And the top line of crawling text would have a 100% opaque or clear background. All these lines of text are over the same piece of video.
I have been able to get the text crawl feature in the title designer to work properly but I cant figure out how to have black, 50% or clear backgrounds for each text item. Any tips or clues as to how I can do this? Do I need to create some other layer of video between the text and the video that is under all this?
Note, I’m not an experienced editor or graphic artist, just an engineer who tinkers with NLE toys on occasion to try and create something for a specific video test seqeunce so please forgive me I my explanations dont make much sense.
Thanks in advance,
Jason
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4 Replies
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You could simply use six titles. Three that just have backgrounds for the text. You could then set the opacity to your preference. Then three that have the text. That would allow you to easily time them at different starting points.
Or, you could create one background in Photoshop so the opacity could be handled there.
Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
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Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5 -
I think I see your point with having 6 titles. I imagine having my video clip in Video Layer 1, my title with varying opacity in Video Layer 2 and my title with text crawl in Video Layer 3.
This is sort of how I’ve tried to implement your suggestion where I took the title that has text crawl and copied it to video layer 2. I then altered the title in layer 2 to have 0% opacity but that just makes it all invisible.
My brain is not working well enough this Friday to figure our how to make the text crawl layer a solid color or even opaque. Do I want to adjust the opacity in the “Transform” box or the “Object Style-Fill” box or do I want to adjust some other parameter?
Basically I guess I’m asking how to make title boxes that just have backgrounds as you suggested.
Thanks and have a good weekend
Jason
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I thought my explanation of using separate titles was clear, but in retrospect, I can see I was not detailed enough. I meant for you to use 7 tracks. The video on one, and a title on each of the tracks numbered 2 through 7.
Let’s do it a different way. You can simply make one title with three boxes drawn on the title, and three streams of crawling text. When you make each box, set the opacity of the fill to what you want. Just remember that 0% is invisible and there is no point in having an invisible box.
Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5 -
Thanks Steven
Like I said my brain was not working on Friday and after a weekend of rest it all makes sense now. I didn’t even realize I could draw in a box using the shape tools on the left side of the Title Designer window.
Thanks again,
Jason
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