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Adding a title – Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio (Dongle) User Manual

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Adding a title

Adding a title

Your promotional video needs a title. Producing a good title whether as the opening or as a
simple lower third is an art form that uses typography, color, and animation in creative ways,
drawing from graphic design principles that date back centuries. Maybe expectations for
this one minute promo are not so lofty, but we can still create some great looking titles,
really quickly using the title browser in the cut page.

1

In the upper-left area of the screen, click the title browser button.

The title browser consists of basic titles at the top where you can create a title from a
blank page and over two dozen Fusion animated title templates in the lower half of the
browser. Let’s use one of the lower third title templates to introduce the prawn and
basil spaghettini dish the chef is making.

2

Scroll down the list of title templates until you locate the Lower 3rd Simple Vertical 1
Line template.

3

Drag the Lower 3rd template to the upper timeline, directly above the second cut
away clip.

Some templates like this one, when placed over a video clip have a transparent
background so the video clip is visible behind the text in the viewer.