Welcome back to another episode of our HitFilm Basics Masterclass. If you
missed the other videos on how to install HitFilm and get up and running
with editing video, you can find those in the cart on screen. In this tutorial,
we're going to show you how to add text inside a HitFilm. It's pretty easy to
do so let's go ahead and dive right in. Here we are inside a HitFilm and we
have a stock video of this woman running through the field. We're gonna add some
text onto this, so what I'll do is come up to this A icon in the Viewer, which
stands for text. Select it and then either click and drag or just click
depending on what kind of text I want. If it's a single line of text, you're
probably better off just clicking because it will create a Point Text. The
benefit of using Point Text is that it can be easier to position in the frame
and it also grows with the amount of text, so if I come in here and just click
near the center of the frame, it doesn't have to be exact, but then I can type
something like, a short name like "Josh Davies", come over to the text panel and
center it. Then if I go to the Controls and go to Transform, I can zero out the
position and know that this text is exactly in the center of the frame.
Another benefit is if the text gets too long, it grows to fit the available text.
If you're using a paragraph it might get cut off by the text box and we'll see
that happen later. If I click and drag it'll create a Paragraph which has a
text box. When I let go it will be created and you can see the text layer
down here on the timeline. And then I can start typing...
"The Fitnessgram Pacer test is a multi-stage aerobic capacity test".
I don't really want it to go edge to edge
so I'll come down here to the bottom right and there's a small box which I
can shrink down. Then I'll come up and choose the Selection Tool and move the
text to where I want it to be. You can customize the way the text looks using
the Text Panel. Come over, down to the left here, and if you don't see it, you
might be on the Media Panel and you just need to click this right arrow, here, to
get to Text. Here, I can change things that are very similar to a word
processing program, so things like the font. If I can choose something like Lato
which looks a bit nicer, and then I can increase the size as well,
and maybe resize it to reposition it here. If the font has the option I can also
choose different faces for it. This number here is how much of an outline
that the text has, so I'll just increase that a bit until you can see it. And then
we can change the color as well. This doesn't look great but I'm trying to
demonstrate all of the features, so just bear with me. Because there are multiple
lines inside of this text layer we have the option to change a couple of
paragraph options, so, the line spacing like this, or how far apart the letters
are. We can also change the vertical and horizontal scale of the text, and we have
a couple of options down here to quickly convert the text to something like all
caps or all lowercase or title case as well. If you notice that your text is
getting cut off because you've adjusted some of these settings, come back up and
select the Text Tool and then drag the text box until it fits. Down here I can
also center-align the text, and because there are multiple lines I can also
vertically align it, or align it to the bottom. The text inside a HitFilm is
super customizable, so you can create things like lower thirds which are the
name tags at the bottom, or full-on cinematic titles. We won't be touching on
that in this tutorial, because it requires a few more advanced topics like
animation, keyframing, and using effects inside of composite shots, but we will
take a look at that area in a future episode, so stay tuned. But I did want to
let you know that HitFilm ships with a couple of pre-made templates. You can
find them over here on the left, inside of the Media Panel.
If I click templates, you can see a box pop-up that shows me the available
templates to use. In this case I'll select Transparent Box and then choose
Import. This will import it into the Media Panel which I can then click and
drag onto the timeline. It's not in the right spot, I want it to be over here, on
her right side, so what I'll do is bring it over here using the viewer controls,
and then I can resize it inside of the Controls Panel. Obviously that name isn't
quite right, so what I'll do is come over and select Edit Title. I can then type.
Next, I'll choose Edit Subtitle and type something in there. Now, if I play it back,
you'll see the animation applied with the new name and subtitle. Depending on
the lower third, you might also have a couple of additional options. So, in this
case, I could change the color here and make it something that doesn't look
great... or adjust the scale if the box is now too big. That's it for this video if
you have any questions feel free to leave them down below. In the next
tutorial will show you how to edit audio inside of HitFilm. Thanks for watching,
and we'll see you all in the next video.