This will ensure you get the most out of the course and learn the program in a more experiential hands-on manner. I'm looking forward to teaching you all the cool things that premiere pro has to offer. So stay tuned and get ready to. Welcome back, everybody in this video, we are going to talk about text and titles and captions and all kinds of good stuff here. So before I do that, let's do just a little bit of quick review because I kind of want to get some of my panels changed up a little bit, so I can see things a little bit better, so I can actually have some, some content to work with. Okay. So if you recall, I have all my bins and everything over here..
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to open up my video bin here, and I'm going to open up to where I have my science and everything, but I'd actually really like to see everything that I have inside of here to have a nice little preview of it. So I'm just going to go over to here to this icon view, and then I'm going to open up to say. Video, and then I'm going to open up to science. Very good. Now I can actually see everything there and remember, I can do my little scrubbing there and I can see kind of what's what, all right. So just a little review on that..
K. And then of course you can see how I have my little tabs here and you can see, I can go from tab to tab so I can see kind of what I had before. And then you can even go over to here to see kind of what's underneath there, hierarchically. All right. And then I can come back to your, where I started if I like to. All right. So I'm going to come back over here and what my goal in this exercise is to find a backdrop for some text. Okay. Because it's kind of a nice effect to have a little bit of, you know, some kind of visual interest behind my tax, behind my titles, behind my caption, you know, just to kind of just show a little preview of what's going to be there, but a little excitement, a little bit of..
So if I go ahead and just double click on this, it's going to show up over here in my source panel. Angle notice here I can play this and when I play it, let me see. There it is. Okay. That's great. And I also noticed here I have an in and out still chosen there. So I'm going to go ahead and clear that. Right. And then maybe I can just go back and I just sort of scrub it and okay. What do I want there? All right. Now what? That actually looks pretty great. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to do my in and out..
So I'm going to say N he playing it. All right. Good. And then right when it's on, it starts to fade out a little bit, then I'm going to do my out. Okay. So again, that's just the key and the O key on your keyboard. All right. Now I'm going to place my play head on my timeline to be where I want it to go. All right. So if you recall, I could do a number of different things here. I could just drag my video, just drag my audio, whatever I want to do, or I could even use my insert or I can use my overwrite, what do I want to do? Right. So it just depends..
So my goal here, right, is to have some type on top of this little backdrop and this gonna be my little introduction to get people a little excited. And everything's like, whoa, Exploratorium. Wow. It's psychedelic really cool stuff. Right. So people say that. So what I'm going to do now is bring. Some texts. Okay. I'm just going to type out a few words there and then I'm going to edit that text. So how do I bring in texts? So you're going to see here on this toolbar that we've explored quite a bit already..
We're going to see that there's this option that says T and you'll see, there it is, move your mouse over it. It should say, this is the type tool. So you click on that. And now I'm in the type tool and very easily. Now I can just start typing right after I click and drag and make a nice little big box here. And you can see I'm able to now start typing some things out. You'll also notice that a new track appears on V2. All right. So I'm just going to start typing out X for a Turi, um, after dark..
Alright, great. So you see how that comes in? Just like anything else, just try out your text box and start typing now. Which you don't see here, which I'm expecting that you expected to see that is that you probably wanted to see some editing tools. Right? You wanted to see some formatting options. Okay. So it's not very obvious. It's a little bit hidden and it's also kind of in a place that you wouldn't expect it. And that's going to be in a new panel called graphics. Okay. We have not explored this. Okay. And they're considering text as graphics..
So this is going to be one of those things. You're like a little head-scratcher. Why is it in graphics? Okay. It is because it is, that's what Adobe has said for it to be. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go ahead and click on graphics, and then you've used to wait about five seconds or so things are going to change pretty dramatically. Cause I'm going to be in the sort of graphic workspace. Okay. So things kind of shift around a little bit, right? Not dramatically, but things do shift around a little bit and you're going to see now I have this essential graphics panel that opens up here..
Okay. And then this is broken down into two tabs. You can see, I have my browse tab, multiple. We're going to be coming back to in a little bit, and I have my edit tab. And as some of these, especially those of you who have some Adobe experience, you know, working with Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign, some of these should actually look very familiar to you. So if we come down to this section here, you're going to see, we have a tech section and we have all kinds of good stuff here. We can see here's where our font is. You can see that you can increase the size of the font. You can adjust the alignment, the tracking, the letting blind space..
Okay. All those good things. Right. So line spacing is also known as letting okay. And then you can see tracking is going to give us some space between
All the letters within the word. And then kerning is going to give us space just in between individual letters. Okay. So if you want to explore some of these other ones as well, feel free to do so. Okay. So. Not a big fan of this font. So what I'm going to do now is now make some changes to it. So, super easy, just going to go ahead and highlight it. And now again, because I'm inside of my graphics panel, I'm inside over here, essential graphics..And then I'm going to come over here, down to my text. I'm just going to go ahead and click. I'm going to find something to work with. Okay. Let's just try maybe monsters attack. Okay. Exploratorium after dark Camy bell, trying to find another one here. How about this one? That's kind of fun. All right. And then maybe I'll make that a little bit bigger and just notice that you can actually increase your font size in one of two ways. Right? You'll notice here. I have this little ruler right there, or I can just go ahead and slide that over, but I also have this guy here, whereas if I move my mouse over, it, it, my cursor's going to turn into a little double-sided arrow and then I.
Can go ahead and resize it that way. So I click and drag this way. You can see bam. I can do that. Or if you move your mouse over. You can see how you can go left and right, right on top of that, just the same. Okay. So whatever your pleasure is, that's how you do it. Okay. Now let me go ahead. And I'm going to make Exploratorium about that same width, and then I'm going to make after dark, maybe another width. Okay. Or I should say size and I'm going to make everything centered..
All right. And then if I want to adjust, let's just say the line spacing here. You can see here. I can adjust that. And that's going to be this section right here. Excuse me. Okay. Let's go ahead and zoom in on that. You can see that's going to be my letting. Okay. So I'm pretty happy with that, but you know, let's just say I want it to change the color. All right. Let's just say, I want to change the fill color, which is going to be basically what you'd expect it to be..
That's the color on the inside versus the stroke. I might want to add on a little outline to it. I can very easily do that down here. So if I want to change this, let's just say to maybe a dark red color, I can very easily do that and I click away and I'll be able to see that. And then if I wanted to maybe put an outline around it, that's going to be a struggle. Okay. And then I can maybe increase the size of the stroke. Right. You notice here, it's just showing a one. Right? Let me just make that, I'm just going to click on it this time and just say five..
All right. And then in order to kind of like settle this and say, okay, I'm kind of done done. So I don't actually accidentally kind of click and make another text box. I'm going to go back to my selection tool. So then I can actually really see it, what it's going to do. Right. So then it kind of like takes me to my sort of home base there. Right. And that looks pretty. All right. I'm pretty happy with that. So just know that's essentially how this is done. Now, if you want it to have more type on this, you could very, very easily do that.
By coming over to this section right here. So you can actually have another layer of type if you want it to, like, if you just wanted to have something completely different where you just didn't want it to be part of this text block, you can do that by coming over to here where you can say, Hey, I'm going to do a new layer, right. Of what of text, or maybe you're going to do a shape right. Of some kind. Right. You can very, very easily do that. And I'll just do it for fun right now, just so you can see. Wow. That's just going to show up right there as a new text. And I'm just gonna go and hit the weed on my keyboard..
And that goes away right now. Let's see this in action. So I'm going to go ahead and come back to here or I can do it from here. I'm just gonna hit the space bar. All right. And there we go in a little bit, we're going to learn about transitions and stuff. So I know it's a little bit jumpy, but you'll notice what happens here. Okay. And maybe some of you already caught this, right. What's actually going on and why am I seeing my texts over this next clip? Because it's a little bit too long, right? So that's a really simple fix. It's going to come over here and trim that..
And that just locks right in there. Okay. And then by the way, uh, for your locking, when you do see that little magnet thing, that's typically happening because of the snap in timeline, right. Snaps right in there. Okay. So you'll see that all over the place, right? Whenever you want something to snap in there, if it's not snapping properly, you just need to turn this on. Okay. So let's just watch it again. Now that I've made those changes. Okay. Very good. Nice and clean. All right. So love that super happy with it..
If you want to make the edits again, let's come back here. Right. And I can go back to my type tool.
Right. And then this is highlighted again. Very good. And now I can make whatever changes I want. You can always come back to it. So just think about it as its own separate object. All right. Then you can go ahead and click on it and guess what? I can even move it around if I wanted to. Right. Do all kinds of good things to it. All right. So if you wanted to kind of just play with it with different layers, if you have other text on there, you have full control over it..So very good. And then lastly, what I'm going to do with this, I'm just going to kind of shift this over, but then click on this little guy right here to adjust the alignment of the object, right. To make it. So it's going to be perfectly centered within my frame. All right. So you have all the tools you need all right here, but it's a little bit harder to get to because it's not obvious. Right? So we're going to, going to go to the graphics panel here and then we see everything that we need right here. Okay. Now let's see what we can do with a few other things. All right. I want to actually stay within this essential graphics and let's now see.
What we can do with this browse option. So this is pretty neat because we're going to see that Adobe gives us some nice little freebie. All right. It gives us actually a few kind of off the shelf, little captions and titles and things like that, that we can use. Some of them have little animations on there. Some have backgrounds, preset texts, you know, things like that because of your title here, just explore these, you'll see some of them a little more creative than others, you know? And then sometimes you're going to use certain ones versus others. Okay. So let me guess, go ahead..
I'm going to go to our famous chef, right. And maybe like, I'll just do one of the times that we see him kind of for the longest amount of time. And I want to put in some, so a caption there, right. And this might be like the caption I decide to use like all the time. Right. So you can see there's this kind of lower third situation that you can see something like this for sports teams. Right. Isn't okay. It doesn't have to be a sports team. There's letting you know. That, that could be something you can use it for. So we'll see, there's a bunch of other ones, maybe something like that..
How graphic do you want to get? But it's kind of nice because they do give you, you know, some pretty fancy ones. Okay. So let me just go ahead and find a decent one that we can work with. Okay. That one's not bad. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and just drag this right there in my timeline at locks in place. And then yeah, there you go. All right. Not too shabby. Didn't have to do too much at all. And if I play this, we're going to see what happens..
Great. I even getting a nice little animation out of that. Right. Didn't have to do any animation. Don't have to know any special things in after effects or even premiere to be able to create that. It does it for me. It's all off the shelf. Okay. And again, you can see, there's probably about like 50 of them in there. All right. Now what I'm going to do is I need to put in my own stuff here. Okay. So when I click on this. Directly. Right. And I'm still in my selection tool. Notice how this gets highlighted. And also you're going to notice that it automatically now takes me to my edit tab..
Okay. And I can go ahead and change all the different things if I want. Right. So I'm just going to go ahead now and just double click on this. Okay. I'm going to say chef Bob. Okay. And then add title here. Okay. So sushi, king SF. All right. And of course, I'm going to come back to my selection tool and it's as easy as that. Right. So then if I play it, let's come back..
Let's just watch it as it's leading up into it. Nice. And that looks really cool. Really perfect. And you can just see how long it stays up there. And of course I can change that the defaults gonna be about five seconds. So if I don't want that to be so long, if I want it to be even longer than that, I can very, very easily do that. Okay. Now, if we come back to this, you'll notice because this is one of these off the shelf graphics and text captions. You're going to see that there's actually quite a bit going on here..
Right? You can see here, this has shape, right? And then I actually have two layers here. That stuff automatically comes in there. So you may want to explore some of that stuff if you're kind of hungry for, you know, kind of doing things on your own and doing things a little bit differently. Right. You can actually see, like, if I click on shape, there's a nice little gradient there. Right. And a few other options that you might want to explore. Okay. So pretty cool stuff. Just like right off the bat. Okay. Now the last thing we're going to do in this segment, so I want to talk about how we can bring in kind of a title in the big..
All right. So if I go over to my beginning right now, it just kind of starts off with this. Right. Which isn't so bad, but maybe I want to do something that's kind of like opening credits or, you know, just want to have something that's just going to be with like a black background. Right. That's not super obvious, right? There's not like a black background option for us. Hey, but there is something that's very similar to that that's going to lead us to that place. And what we're going to do is we're going to come over to here, back to our project panel where all our bins, aren't everything. And we're going to go over to this little guy right there, right..
Something we have not actually used. You click on that. You're going to see you get a lot of options here. Okay. And in our advanced class, we're going to go eat some more of these occur, adjustment layers, and a few other things. But what we're concerned with here is something called the color matte, because that's what I want to do. I essentially want to create a background, right. Or even just thinking about it, like a video file that has nothing on it, except for. And the reason why I'm doing that is so I can have a background..
So I can just put some basic text on there. Right. Plain and simple. Right. So let's just go ahead and click on that. And then it gives me, you know, the size and everything like that, or it should match up to my sequence. So I'm gonna click, okay. That's going to ask me, right. Very well, what's the color you want to have in the background. Right. And you can choose whatever color you want. Right. If you know your RGB value, right. And some of these other things here, you can do that as well. Totally up to you. I'm going to choose black. Right. That's going to be nice and easy for me. I click. Okay..
And I'm just going to call this black BG for titles. And I can use that over and over and over again. Now you'll notice as soon as I hit, okay, this now appears right. Black BG for titles right now. It just exists. It doesn't go into the timeline. So what I need to do of course is bring it into the timeline and I want to bring it in. So it's before everything else. Okay. I don't want to overwrite anything. I don't want to, you know, put it on top of anything..
So what I'm going to do is hold down the control key on my keyboard or the command key on the Mac and just drag it in. And now notice when I drag it and I let go, it just pushes everything over. Right. So it doesn't actually overwrite it, it just inserts it. Okay. And of course it's because of that special keyboard key that I press down as I've dragged it over. Right. Which is control or command on the Mac. Okay. So. Now I have this black background now. So what I'm going to do next is very simply, I'm just going to go over to here to my essential graphics panel..
I'm going to go over here to browse and I'm going to bring in one of these preset titles. So let's go ahead and do that. I'm just going to drag this in. You're going to see very cool. Right. And that's going to be all ready to go. Okay. So we'll just go ahead and just drag my play head over a little bit so I can actually see it. And then very easily. I can just go ahead and double-click on the text box. I'm going to say, Hey, pseudo joint production. Okay. Very good. And then down here, I'm going to say 2021..
All right. Very cool. And then again, you can see I've got all kinds of different layers happening over here. I can change my font if you want to. You know, this is all preset. They're giving you a nice little gift so you can choose whatever you want, you know, as a result, or you can just kind of keep it as is right. Totally up to you. All right. Now you'll notice that, um, when I play it, it just does all this nice, cool little animations and all that cool stuff. Right. And you'll also notice that I have my little black background, everything. If I decide I don't want this color background and more, it's very simple to change that you just double click on the track right there, and this.
Is going to come up and let's just say, I want to kind of do like a, kind of a deep color red I click. Okay. And you can see how easy that is to change it. And it changes the whole thing and I play it and then nice little animation comes in and then it's going to transition. Bam, just like. Okay. All right. We're actually going to learn about like real transitions in a little bit. So we're kind of fades in a little bit more gracefully, but you can see how awesome this is, right? So it's just like, this is really integral to all of your projects, right? Working with texts, whether it's going to be just a title of some kind, right..
Maybe something that's going to have a color backdrop. It's going to have a, another video backdrop. Or potentially like a lower third situation for captions. You know, if you're doing a documentary, something like that for a variety of different reasons. So you see that it's relatively easy to do, but it can be slight bit of a challenge to find where all your content is. So you simply just do the T and then you go ahead and you select it out and you can put your stuff in there, but then you need to make sure you go to the graphics panel, go to essential graphics and you can see how everything's broken out into two tabs..
And then you are good to go. All right. Now I'm going to say one quick thing here, just to know that like, if something weird is happening where like you can't actually edit your. Right. I'm just gonna give you a quick little note on this. Um, and it could be because your display is not set to your default display for your computer. So Adobe doesn't necessarily respond well in this case, if your display is set to like 125%, and it's not like the native resolution for your computer. So would you try to do is switch it back to a hundred percent case..
So you might notice that my screen might look a little bit different than other videos that you've seen prior with, within this title. And that is because I changed it back to make it, so everything does work. So my things might look a little bit smaller. And that's why, cause I normally had a 125% for instructional purposes, but now I've got it for back to a hundred percent. So I can actually show you how titles work because ordinarily they would not work. Okay. So we're to the wise there, nice little tip in case it's not working for you where you can't actually make any edits..
All right. So as always positive. Practice it up, have fun. Hopefully you're starting to see all of this come together for your working with some of my videos. If you got some of your own videos, but this really kind of culminates everything together makes it a full piece. All right. And we'll see, in the next lesson, in this lesson, we're going to talk about how to work with still images. Sometimes you just have photographs and you just want to bring them in to make a slideshow. Sometimes you might want to bring them in into your actual video and you wanna.
Incorporate them into the timeline. We did a lesson on that earlier when we export it in a frame and we brought something in, or you can see where that actually lives as a JPEG. Now, before I show you how to actually do all of this, I want you to see what we can customize a little bit inside of our preferences. So if you're on the PC, you're going to click on edit and then preferences. And if you're on the Mac, you're going to click on the premier menu in the upper left. And what we're going to do is we're going to go over to here, to the timeline on. Let me go to timeline. You're going to see that there's all kinds of different preset options that you can choose as your own for preferences..
What we're going to focus on here for this lesson is going to be this still image, default duration. How long do you want it to be? Right. So it's going to save you a lot of time for when you bring in your images right into the timeline. Do you always want them to be 10 seconds, right? You don't have to change it every time you can change it right here to be 10 seconds or just three seconds or whatever you want it to be. The default is. So you don't have to make any changes after the fact. You can do it ahead of time in your preferences. Okay. So I'm just going to go ahead and just keep it at five seconds..
I'm pretty happy with that click. Okay. All right. And then also, by the way, sorry, before I leave here, also notice that you have these audio default transitions and also video transition default. So we're going to talk about transitions and just a little bit, so this'll be a nice little kind of preview of where to go in case you wanted to change some of these things ahead of time in case it's not coming in how you want it to. Okay. So let me go ahead and click. Okay. And now let's see how we can bring in our still images. Currently, I have an empty timeline..
So what I'm going to do is go over to my bin here called still images. And you're going to see, I have all of these images that I want to bring in to make a slide show. Okay. So, so pretty simple. I just go ahead and click on the first one, scroll down, hold down the shift key and click on the last one. If you want it to actually see what they look like ahead of time, you can certainly do that. And I can always hold down the, hit the teal day key, and I can see everything here as well. Right. Kinda nice. Right? Pretty cool. So I have everything there until they key. And then again, have everything select..
And then just drag it in to my timeline and just like that. I now have all my images here, so let's go ahead and make this a little bit taller so I can see them there. Right. And then I'm just going to go ahead and hit the plus sign so I can see. Okay, cool. Now I can see what's happening between all of these. So let's just go ahead and hit play. You're going to see if they're going to come in for five seconds, three, four, and five, and it's going to go ahead and transition to another and another and another, right. So pretty straightforward. Right. So it's just like, okay. That just comes in as it is..
And notice I actually have two of the same images there, so no problem there. I'm just going to hold down the shift key and then hit delete, and then you can see how that ripples and that goes back to there. So very good. So you can see kind of a realistic experience that you might see here. All right. So very cool. All right. So now we're going to keep it like this for right now. And a little bit, I'm going to show you how we can do transitions, but I'm going to show you one other thing here before we. And that's going to be a tool that's going to help you really kind of automate the process, but also kind of go through a slightly different, more personalized.
Experience for some of you who already have your things all numbered, or you have them sorted in such a way. All right. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new sequence so far. We have actually not created new sequences from scratch. We've been creating sequences from our content, right from our images, from our video. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to go back to this. New tab here, down on the bottom. And we're going to say a new sequence. Can you get a lot of, kind of like dizzying options here for right now? We're just going to keep the default so you can kind of study some of.
These things here and you can make some changes to them if you want to. But for right now, I'm just going to go ahead and click. Okay. I'm not even going to rename this. I'm just going to go ahead and just say, okay. And now you're going to notice how I have a new sequence here. Okay. In addition to the one that I have here in of course I could change the name of that, which I will. All right. But you can see, I have this blank sequence. What I'm going to do now is use this feature called you're going to see it down here. It's going to be automate to sequence. So I'm going to change my view to list view, and I'm just going to choose my images here, and then maybe I'm going to kind of sort them in a certain way..