Editing and formatting text, Select a title for editing – Adobe Premiere Elements 8 User Manual
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USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Creating titles
Last updated 8/12/2010
3 In the Preview window, do one of the following:
•
Drag either the Set In handle
or the Set Out handle
to trim the title.
•
Drag the current-time indicator to the desired location and click either the Set In button
or the Set Out button
to establish a new In point or Out point.
4 In the Preview window, click the Close button
.
Adobe Premiere Elements saves the trimmed title in the Tasks panel.
Trim an individual title instance from the Monitor panel
1 In the Sceneline, select the title clip or the clip on which the title is superimposed.
2 In the Monitor panel, right-click, choose Select, and choose the name of the title to be trimmed. A representation
of the title appears in the Monitor panel’s mini-timeline as a lavender bar containing the title filename.
A title in the Monitor panel’s mini-timeline
3 In the Monitor panel, drag either the Set In handle or the Set Out handle
of the title representation to trim the
title.
Trim an individual title instance from the Timeline
1 In the Timeline, locate the title to be trimmed in one of the video tracks. You might need to drag the video track
scroll bar to expose the title.
2 Hover the cursor over either end of the title until it changes to the ripple trim cursor
. Then drag the end of the title
to trim it. Gaps are closed automatically. If you created a black video clip for your title, you’ll need to trim that too.
To trim without closing the gap, Ctrl-drag the clip end instead.
Editing and formatting text
Select a title for editing
Before you can edit a title, you must select it in the Monitor panel.
Important: If you double-click a title clip in the Tasks panel, it opens in the Preview window, and you cannot edit a title
in the Preview window.
1 Do one of the following:
•
In the Sceneline, select the title clip or the clip on which the title is superimposed. In the Monitor panel, click the
clip to select it, and then double-click the text to edit.
•
In the Timeline, you may need to use the scroll bars along the right side of the Timeline to see a title on the Video
2 track.