Hey everybody! It's Premiere Gal. In this video tutorial I'm going to be teaching
you how to add open captions in Premiere Pro.
So what I have here is a basic photo montage that I've created and what I
want to do is now add a captioning layer on top of the footage so I'm going to go
down and select "new item" select "captions"
then click "ok" then under standard drop down you're going to hit open captions
hit ok and then will appear over here in your project folder you can rename it
you know anything that you'd like and then you just want to drag it over to
your sequence which is where you'll be able to see it
alright so now you can see that there's captions on your video but now it's time
to edit them so they match your voiceover alright so first you're going
to type in the first line of the voiceover once you're done typing it in
you're going to find the "out point" which is where that voiceover ends and you're
going to type that "out point" where it says "out" in the captions
editing viewer ok now i'm going to type in line number two and the same way i'm
going to find the endpoint which will be the out point of where this text will
end on screen and for the last line i'm just gonna fast-forward really quickly
whilel I add that in. Alright!
so now you know this is kind of boring right? We want to maybe stylize it up a
little bit here
make it bigger more bold more easy to read
so I'm going to get rid of the background and lower the opacity 20
that's how you do it and I'm going to make the font size about a hundred and
so this is what it looks like right now I want to change the font though
let's go to go bold bold and that's what it looks like
looking good and now I just want to highlight town and I actually want to
make it the color blue
so you have to select the text and the color picker to choose a sky-blue there.
Perfect!
make town a little bit bigger you can actually select individual words which
is really awesome. That looks pretty good to me.
Now let's go on to stylize line number two of the voiceover. So let's go ahead
and increase the font size and you'll notice with this grid here you can
actually customize where it lays on actual image
so let's have it in the center take away the background
go ahead and adjust the font again to go fold
perfect make it a little bit bigger
so another really cool thing that you can do with text is you can add spaces
or paragraph lines
so right now if you just hit enter you can actually create a new line which is
pretty cool and you can make a certain part of that line as i said before a
different font size
so now let's go ahead and change the color of open road because we really
want to stand out
let's see what a green that's not the best color let's make a little bit
brighter
how about that cool
now i'm going to go ahead and just quickly fast forward to as i finish up
this last line here. So it's all about sort of playing around with the size
based out of your own personal preference
so now I'm going to add a cross dissolve to the beginning of the captioning layer
just like I have on the actual footage now copy that cross dissolve so now it fades in
really nicely
[Voiceover plays] "Ever feel like getting out of town? Just follow that open road. And take it all in."
So now it's time to render. Let's render it
quickly and i'm going to show you how to export directly to twitter with the new
publish feature so let's go ahead and find Twitter here you can actually have
a custom status include your hashtag just make sure that you're logged into
your account and Voila!
That's it! I really hope you guys enjoyed this video please give it a big thumbs up!
Please comment if you would like any further tutorials.
I also want to note that this tutorial is part of a guest blog on premierebro.com
so if you go to that website you can check out the full blog
I've added a link below thanks again and I look forward to feedback!
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