Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 222)

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Last updated 8/12/2010
Chapter 12: Creating titles
You can design custom titles and graphics with Adobe Premiere Elements. Titles serve many purposes, from
identifying people and places on-screen to providing movie-style credits. You can create your own title text to
superimpose over an existing video clip, or you can use one of the included title templates. In addition, you can make
your title text roll, crawl, fade, or scale into view, use any of the included text styles, or format and color your text any
way you want.
Creating and trimming titles
Superimposing titles
Before creating a title, select a place for it. By default, when you create a new title using the Title menu, the title appears
superimposed on the first video clip in your project. However, you can choose to place it in an empty area of the
Timeline with no underlying video. If you do the latter, you can superimpose it later by using a drag-and-drop
procedure.
Superimposing a title
When you create a title in an empty area, Adobe Premiere Elements places it in the Video 1 track of the Timeline and
into an empty target area in the Sceneline.
Note: If you drag a clip onto a title in the Sceneline, or place one on a track above the title in the Timeline, the clip will
obscure the title and make it disappear from the Monitor panel. To make the title visible again, click the Timeline button
and drag the title to a video track higher than the track holding the clip.