Premiere Pro 1.5 Built-in Titler vs. Photoshop

[Steven L. gotz]

It depends on what you want to do with the title. Regular text works great in the titler. And you can make shapes if you are not inclined to make any odd shapes.

If you want to spice up your titles, use After Effects to animate them, or use Bluff Titler to make them 3D.

Perhaps you could describe your needs a bit better. But if you want to get Photoshop, then Elements is good for most all of your needs, is my guess.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / 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

[Tim Kolb]

I find myself wishing I had the capabilities present in PPro’s titler inside Photoshop…

I think the titler is far faster if what you are looking for is creation of text-based titles.

TimK,

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[Doug Broomfield]

Thanks Steve for the input. Our needs are pretty basic at this point, text-based. However, moving the titles with some simple moves would be nice. I know After Effects is great for animation, but what about Premiere Pro’s title movement capability?

Doug

[Steven L. gotz]

You can move the titles just like you can move any still image. Just use the default Motion effect. So if you want two lines of text to come from opposite directions, you just use two titles and animate them both.

For some cool text styles, Tim Kolb gave me some to post on my web site. Visit my Premiere Pro page at https://www.stevengotz.com/premierepro.htm to download the styles and some other cool things from Tim.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / 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

[Doug Broomfield]

Thanks Tim for the input. BTW – I saw some of the stuff you did on Steve’s website, and that proves you can do some pretty nice stuff with the PP Titler program – cool.

[Jack Sugrue]

[Tim Kolb] “I find myself wishing I had the capabilities present in PPro’s titler inside Photoshop…

I think the titler is far faster if what you are looking for is creation of text-based titles.”

Tim,

I understand what you mean, but I have 1 problem with the PPro Titler. When I create a text box with 5 lines, for instance, and I want the first 2 to be centered, but the rest to be left-justified, it does not work like it does in Photoshop. I highlight the first 2 lines and hit the icon for Center. However, it centers all 5 lines, not just the ones I highlighted. Same thing with the Leading property. However, properties such as Font, Font Size, Kerning, etc. all work only on those lines highlighted.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks, Jack