Text in Adobe Premiere Pro CC

[Jon Doughtie]

You have lots of options.

You can simply use the titler in Premiere Pro. It gives you many options for dressing your fonts, and basic shape tools for creating L3 elements. You can make your stuff, drop it on the timeline, and either fade, cut or use basic motions FX to reveal very quickly.

You can go crazy doing stuff in After Effects for anything fancy you want, but if you are not familiar with AE, you’ll want to do some starter tutorials first.

In between, you can make layered elements in Photoshop, import into Premiere Pro as layers, and individually animate each layer element in Premiere Pro.

Lots of options!

[David Rehm]

Premiere has templates for lower thirds that could do the job for you but if you’re just making static lower thirds I would do it in Photoshop.

Here’s a tut to start you out:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_designing_lower_thirds_1.php

David

[Tim Kolb]

If you want to see what can be done with Premiere Pro’s “standard equipment” title tool, you might check out style4type.com where there are a lot of free templates.

You could also check this out: https://youtu.be/LGWZrRjrURk

Basically, yes, the (on-board) titler is very capable.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

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[David Rehm]

That’s awesome – thanks for the heads-up and link.

David

[Alex Udell]

For statics (not motion graphic designs)

I like the idea of creating a master Photoshop document with Layers.

This makes it easy to go back and as a group change layer styles and fonts. This is something that’s not so easy to do with the titler.

plus if you decide later that you want to do something in AE…

the PSD will work there too…

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Tim Kolb]

There are several ways to approach this, obviously.

The tradeoffs are that Photoshop can make changes to layers if you’ve committed all your titles to a layered document…though you’d still have to address each layer individually unless your layer “styles” (textures) etc are on a layer floating above the text layers, adding layers in a Photoshop document containing all your lower thirds can affect layers already imported into PPro.

The Title tool inside Premiere Pro can create looks and styles that would be very time-consuming to duplicate in Photoshop…not to mention how quickly those parameters can be altered in the Titler…not to mention that you haven’t left Premiere Pro to create or change the titles.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Kevin Balling]

Thank you all so very much. I never thought that I would ever make the switch from Final Cut (6,7). I am loving Premiere Pro CC and the wonderful related software. Very nice!
Kevin

Kevin Balling
Tin Roof Video
http://www.tinroofvideo.com

[Alex Udell]

PS: Right click a layer in the layer palette…

Select copy layer style

select destination layers

multi-select, right click select paste layer style

for font changes, multi-select layers and choose a new font

if necessary, use groups to organize mains versus subs and so on…

[Tim Kolb]

Alex…do you import each text layer as a separate asset?

What do you do to ensure you can add/insert a layer without changing the imported files?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Alex Udell]

Tim…

Individual assets seems to work fine?

I created a doc…did names one each layer.

Imported.

Went back to PS changed layer styles, rearranged, added layers in the middle of the stack and resaved…

created group folders..

added stuff…repeated…nothing wrong that I could see…

didn’t see any issues…

I know FCP had a terrible time with this, as it seemed to be tied to the layer order index and not the layers themselves…

What are you seeing that I may not be thinking of?

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX