Titling in videos goes all the way back to the days of silent films, when it
probably would have been impossible to follow many of those movies without them.
Adding titles to your own videos can make them easier to follow, add
additional details and/or make them accessible to the viewer. Adding basic
titles in VideoStudio is quick and easy, with many advanced features and effects
also available to add. In this tutorial we'll start out by showing how to create
basic titles to add to your photos or videos. We'll be creating a basic title
from scratch, use a couple of the built-in animated titles and also show
you how to edit them. We'll even show you how to save them for future use
afterwards. Once you're comfortable with this you can look into more advanced
features in other VideoStudio tutorials. You will need at least one video clip or
several still pictures as content to overlay your titles onto. Titles cannot
be created without content either already in your video or overlay track.
Let's get started. Open VideoStudio in to the Edit tab. For this tutorial I'm
going to create a new folder and drop in some images to use these as backgrounds
from my titles instead of using videos. Watch along carefully. I'll click the Add
button in my library panel and create a new folder named MY TITLE IMAGES. I will
place three images into the video track of the timeline. Notice they start at the
beginning and drop in sequentially after that. VideoStudio does not allow for any
blank spaces on your video track. Next, double-click each image in the video
track to bring up the Options panel. Then making sure the Edit tab is at the front,
set each clip's duration to 5 seconds.
Hit your Enter key after each one to set the duration in the timeline. Now let's
add the titles, starting with one from scratch. Adding a basic title is super
easy. Double-click anywhere in the timeline's title track under the first
image. The title and the title Options window will open up and in the Preview
window you will see the words DOUBLE- CICK HERE TO ADD TITLE. Let's do that.
Wherever you double-click in the Preview is where your title will begin but it
can be moved afterwards as well. Type the words GO FARTHER. Your text format may or
may not look like mine but it's okay, we're going to change it. Click outside the
text container to set the text. Around your text are various small yellow
squares and pink dots. Grab the pink dots to rotate the text box around its center.
Grab any of the yellow squares to resize your text. You can also numerically
resize your text in the Options window. I'm going to then place my text under the
airliner. I also want to make sure the length of
my title matches that of the image so I will stretch it out in the timeline.
Let's now format the text. The text Options window should already be open and
you can see that you have a lot of basic text formatting options available to you.
Make sure your text is selected in the timeline. Change the font here. Change the
font size here. Change the font color here.
Change or add a border or shadow and transparency here. Set a more precise
alignment here. If your title contains an animation that you don't want, first go
to the Attribute tab in the Options window and make sure the Apply box under
animation is not checked. In future tutorials you'll learn how to add
animations and effect filters into your titles. To change the wording of your
text after you've added all the options, you simply double-click it in the
Preview window and make any changes just like you would in a word processor.
That's how you create and edit a basic title in VideoStudio. Let's now use one
of the many animated title templates that are available to us. If it's not
already showing, click the T to open the Title library. If necessary, also choose
Title from the gallery drop-down and also click the Show Library icon in the
lower right of the Library panel to close the Options window and expand the
Title library. To speed things up a little, I'll add both titles for each of
the last two images at once. To see a preview of any of the titles, just select
it in the Library to view it in the Preview window. Then just drag and drop
it to any part of the title where you like. In this case we'll do it to line up
one under each image. If it's not the same length,
just grab the end and adjust it.
Your timeline should now look like this with three images, three titles and a
total length of 15 seconds. Let's play what we have so far from the very
beginning. Be sure to click PROJECT in the Preview window to play all the
tracks together. Selecting CLIP instead will only play a selected track or clip.
I think we're on the right track. Let's now edit the text of these new titles in
the timeline. Place your playback head at about the 7-second mark and
double-click the second title to select it. In the Preview window double-click
the text and change it to EXPLORE DEEPER.
Click outside the text to lock it in. As we did previously, I'm going to change
the font to Orbitron, change the font size to 100, change the font color and
change the border,
and set the alignment to the bottom middle. let's preview this part of
our video. leave it to Clip and click Play.
Let's do one final one using a third template. The template I've chosen
this time is a two-parter with two separate lines of text. Let's see how
this turns out. I'm going to change the first line to LOOK UP AT THE STARS and
the second line to NOT DOWN AT YOUR FEET. Some of you may recognize this quote.
I'll change the fonts to Orbitron. I'll change the first line of text to 100.
I'll change the second line of text to 75. and I'll place both of these at the
center of my screen using the red lines as guides. All else I will leave as is.
Let's preview this clip.
It's important to note: if you return to the Attributes tab, which is next to the Edit
tab in the Options panel, you can see and edit any of the animation and filter
effects that are applied to this particular text. So even though these are
templates, they're customizable templates. We'll show you how to make changes to
these in a future VideoStudio tutorial. Oh and one last thing...
Can we save these as new titles to use later? The answer to that is yes. Select
any of the titles in your timeline. In the gallery pop down choose My Favorites
and click the Star icon. Your new title is now saved for future use.
If you are watching this tutorial on YouTube you'll find a link in the description below
to download a copy of the written tutorial and sample images to follow along.