Despite having deep manual controls to make your text do almost anything your imagination can dream up, AE comes with a surprisingly large and decent collection of presets. If you feel a little rough around the edges with AE and terms like text animators, keyframes, and masks as paths, let’s keep it simple. This can be a lower third, a built in animation, text on a path, whatever you like. The first step is either the easiest or the hardest, depending on your AE skill level: build a text animation.
Think about making one animated lower third template in AE (or receiving one from a motion graphic artist) and then being able to duplicate and update the text dozens of time all from within Premiere. This greatly cuts down the back and forth between applications and improves productivity. Premiere's been able to import AE compositions for years, but in 2014, Adobe added the ability to update AE comp text boxes directly within Premiere. What it does cover is a feature introduced in Premiere Pro CC 2014 that still seems to go overlooked: live text templates. That would take a short book (maybe a long one).
This isn’t an article on how to create animated text in AE. Yes, it can do the bare necessities of static text with simple shapes (and even text on a path, woo!), but not a whole heck of a lot else.Īdobe’s answer? “Use After Effects!” Which is fine - assuming you know After Effects! There are a few plugins that can help for some basic animations (check out Coremelt’s free ActiveText plugin), but at the end of the day if you want your text to bounce, roll, spring, or sparkle in, or any other sort of flashy entrance, AE is the way to go. One look at Premiere’s Title panel and we feel like we’ve stepped back into a 1997 version of Broderbund’s The Print Shop. In my opinion, Premiere's weakness is titling. That being said, no program is perfect and every program has its Achilles’ heel and Premiere is no exception. It has top-tier features, which top-tier editors need to get almost any job done. TIP: You can slow down the credit roll by extending the length (duration) of the title object once you’ve dragged it onto your timeline.Without a doubt, Premiere Pro is a world-class video editing application and it continues to improve with each passing update.
This will ensure that our credits begin at the bottom below the screen and scroll completely up to the top allowing our credits to speed across the screen as we would expect. We want to select the “Roll/Crawl Options” icon up in the top toolbar (second icon from the left) and tick on “Start Off Screen” and “End Off Screen”. When we created a Rolling Title (Title>New Title>Default Roll…), it automatically created some animation. You can also select both text fields at the same time and select the “Horizontal Center” icon under the word “Center” in the lower area of the toolbar on the left side of the title editor. I also aligned the type on the left side of the title to the right and then duplicated this box and dragged it to the right side of the title editor and aligned this text back to the left.
Adding and the Text and Aligning Everything I also wanted all the words to always be all in uppercase so I ticked on the “Small Caps” option in the properties bar to the right and then set “Small Caps Size” to 100% so all the letters will be both uppercase and at full size. I chose a font from FontSquirrel called Josefin SF and then set the size to 25 and the leading to 10. In Premiere, go Title>New Title>Default Roll… then use the text tool to draw out a text field about half the size of the smallest, innermost box guide in the title editor window. Hope you love the tutorial! Create a New Rolling Title It’s a fairly simple effect overall once you know how to do it. We’ll grab the perfect font, stylize it just right in the title editor, align it all so it looks professional, and then set the animation and where it begins and end on the timeline.
Looking to create those professional looking credits that you see roll at the end of every single movie you’ve ever watched? This tutorial will lay out exactly how to create amazing looking credits that are smooth, slick, and professional looking from scratch in Premiere Pro.