Premiere® Elements 8 For Dummies®

Chapter 13. Adding Titles to Your Movies

In This Chapter

• Knowing the rules for effective titles

• Creating, adding, and tweaking titles

• Making rolling and scrolling titles

• Adjusting your titles' appearance

In a rush to get to the pictures, folks who are new to video editing often overlook the importance of good audio (see Chapter 8). The same could also be said of titles — the subject of this chapter. Titles are the words that sometimes appear on-screen to tell your audience things such as the name of your movie, who made it, who starred in it, who paid for it, who made the titles, and who baked cookies for the cast. Titles can also clue the audience in to vital details — where the story takes place, in what time period, and even what time of day or year — with minimum fuss. And, of course, subtitles can reveal what the characters are saying if they're speaking a different language.

Adobe Premiere Elements includes powerful tools to help you add titles to your movies. Few affordable video-editing programs offer the creative control and power over on-screen text that you get with Premiere Elements. In this chapter, I show you how to create attractive and functional titles with Premiere Elements, as well as show you how to integrate those titles into your projects.

Creating Basic Titles

Sure, you can think of titles as just words on the screen. But think of the effects, both forceful and subtle, that well-designed titles can have. Consider the Star Wars movies, which all begin with a black ...