Editing with Avid Media Composer 5: The Official Avid Guide

Chapter 9. Creating Titles with Avid Marquee

Objectives:

• Understand the different parts of the Marquee interface

• Create and format text for titles

• Make visual adjustments to your titles’ color, opacity, gradient, and shadows

• Use shapes to accent titles

• Save, edit, and revise titles

Titles are an essential part of most projects—whether they are simple lower thirds for identification purposes, artistic title slates that add both information and design elements to your sequence, or 3D animated title sequences that tell an entire story. Whatever your title creation needs may be, Avid^® Marquee^® provides easy solutions to create the ideal design for your show.

You’ll explore basic title creation in this book, but you should feel free ...