Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Adobe Certified Expert exam objective

Describe the process required to create a static title.

1.

If the Titler is open, move the Titler floating window so you can access the Main Menu.

2.

Select File > New > Title to open the Titler (F9).

3.

Type Lesson 7-2 Text in the New Title box and click OK.

4.

Drag the Time Code (to the right of the Show Video checkbox) to change the video frame displayed in the text screen.

This can come in handy if you want to position text relative to the video contents or check how the text looks over your video.

5.

Uncheck Show Video.

The background now consists of a grayscale checkerboard. That signifies a transparency. That is, if you place text created in the Titler on a video track above other video clips, the video on lower tracks will be visible wherever you see that checkerboard. You can also create text or geometric objects with some transparency. In that case, you'll see the checkerboard through an object, which means the video will show through but it'll appear that it's covered with smoked or tinted glass.

6.

Click the GaramondPro OffWhite 28 style (sixth style of this eight-style group), click the Fly-out Menu and select Set Style As Default.

That places it at the head of the style line, puts a very tiny box with a red diagonal line next to it (highlighted in the next figure) to identify it as the default Style, and changes the thumbnail in the Title Tools panel to that style.

7.

Click the Type tool (T)shortcut Tand click anywhere in the Titler screen. The Type tool creates Point Text.

8.

Start typing. For the purposes of this exercise, type

Lesson 7-2 .

9.

Click the Selection tool (the black arrow in the top left corner of the Titler). That puts handles on the text bounding box.

10.

Drag the corners and edges of the text bounding box and note how the text changes size and shape accordingly.

11.

Hover the cursor just outside a corner of the text bounding box until you see a curved line cursor () and then rotate the bounding box off its horizontal orientation.

Instead of dragging bounding box handles, you can change values in the Transform settings (in the Properties panel). Either type in new values or place your cursor on a value and drag left or right. Your changes will show up immediately in the bounding box.

12.

Click anywhere within the bounding box (the Selection tool is still active) and drag the angled text and its bounding box around the Titler screen.

13.

Edit that text by double-clicking anywhere in the text and typing. You can drag to select text you want to remove or replace.

14.

Delete all the text by clicking the Selection tool, which puts handles on the text bounding box indicating it's selected, and pressing Delete.

15.

Click the Style Fly-out Menu and select Apply Style with Font Size to revert back to the style's original size.

16.

Click the Area Type tool () and drag a text bounding box into the Titler screen that nearly fills the Safe Title Margin.

You can turn off the Safe Title Margin and Safe Action Margin rectangles by opening the Title Designer's Fly-out Menu (or selecting Title > View from the Main Menu) and then clicking on either of those options.

17.

Start typing. This time type enough characters to go beyond the end of the bounding box.

Unlike Point Text, Area Text remains in the confines of the bounding box you defined. It wraps at the bounding box borders. Press Enter to go down a line.

18.

Click the Selection tool and change the size and shape of the bounding box.

The text does not change size. Instead it adjusts its position on the bounding box baselines. If you make the box too small for all your text, the extra text scrolls below the bounding box bottom edge. In that instance a little plus (+) appears in the lower-right corner outside the bounding box.

19.

Double-click within the text to edit it.

20.

Switch to the Selection tool, click anywhere in the text bounding box, and press Delete to remove the text.

While you're testing your text, try the vertically-oriented Point and Area text tools. They create text where each character stands on top of the next one.