- Hey guys, welcome to Travel Feelss.
Do you ever struggle with making titles, like I do?
Let's look at five easy ways to make
really nice looking titles, let's do it.
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Making really nice titles can be
one of the hardest things to do sometimes,
I'm not really a designer, that's not one of my best skills,
so I find it really hard to do really nice titles sometimes
and it takes a lot of time for me to actually get them done
and it kind of stresses me out,
because I'm not really that good at it
and you can't have the exact same
kind of titles in every single film,
'cause sometimes this type of title works for this film
and then it doesn't really work for another film,
that look just doesn't fit
whatever is going on in that video,
but there are some guidelines, that we can keep in mind,
that will really help us in the process of making titles.
I think the number one thing that you can do
is to just keep it simple,
don't try to do anything really crazy or really wild,
keep it really simple, you can try something creative,
but do it in a really subtle, simple way,
I think simple always works best for titles,
for example, a really cool, cinematic title
can be just a really nice font made really small
on a black background, that's it,
it can be really simple, but it can still really work,
because it's simple and you're not trying too hard,
it's not over the top and distracting,
it's just nice and simple and cinematic.
So keep things simple, when you're designing your titles,
I think that's the number one thing you can do.
Then you wanna look at the theme of your video,
what kind of video is it?
Is it a narrative short, is it a really dramatic thing,
is it more of a comedy?
And choose your font according to that,
make the titles according to whatever
is going on in your video, for example,
Wes Anderson has a really specific style
and he chooses fonts and titles
that really work with his style,
they're not super serious and super dramatic,
they're kind of almost goofy at times,
because that's just the style of his films,
whereas if it's a action movie or a summer blockbuster,
you want more dramatic titling,
a little bit more fancy probably,
so think about the theme of your video
and try to work titles that work with that theme
and lastly I would say just look at other people's titles,
if you can't figure out
what kind of titles I should make for this film,
look at some other people's films,
look at some Hollywood films,
they usually have some of the most amazing titles,
that you can find, just because they spend
so much time actually designing those,
but even just look at your favorite filmmakers,
look at what kind of titles they're doing
and just take some ideas from that,
don't necessarily copy them outright,
but take some ideas from that
and make your own style titles.
So our guidelines are keep it simple,
think about the theme of your video
and check out some other people's titles
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So now let's look at five different ways
to make cool titles in a really simple and easy way.
We're gonna be looking at Premiere and After Effects,
but some of these things can be done in other programs also.
I especially like After Effects for titles,
there's just so much you can do,
I really think it's the best program
to make the best titles,
if you really wanna step up your game.
First we're gonna look at this Fade From Black title,
it's kind of coming out of the shadows,
it's a little bit fancier than just having it fade in
and a lot of times you need your titles
to come in in a natural way
and this is kind of a cool way to do that
and it's actually really simple
and you can do it in both Premiere and After Effects
in pretty much the exact same way.
So first off, you just need to make your title,
zoom in on it, because we need to do some masking
around the titles really quickly,
it's gonna make it a little bit easier if you zoom in.
Go to Opacity, then click the Pen tool
and then we're just gonna draw a mask around the title,
it doesn't have to be perfect,
you're just kind of going in and out around the title
and you can change this up later too,
if you find that you don't really like it.
Make sure to feather it out
and then you just use Mask Expansion to fade it in,
you can actually control
how much of the title is being shown,
so you can make it fade in from the black,
starting from the middle and just coming in.
So just add a keyframe where you can't see the title
and then add another keyframe once you have
enough of the title showing or all the way,
depending if you want some
of that shadowing around the text.
Then you can also add a little bit more to this text
by adding a little bit of a scale,
just a little bit, don't go too crazy with it,
it kind of makes it look
like it's emerging from the darkness,
a really cool look, I think,
I've seen other people do this too
and I think it's a really cool way to do some titles,
that's really simple and really easy.
Then we have what I call the Cycle Through Fonts title
and you guys have actually seen this
in a couple of different videos,
like in the Travel Feels' feedback intros,
where the titles kind of go through a few different fonts
and then end up with a final font,
it kind of looks like it's building the titles
and then you end up with a final font.
I think it's a really cool look,
it's not gonna fit every single video,
but it's a really simple way to make cool titles,
animate in in an exciting way.
So first off, you start off with a font,
skip a couple of frames, two or four,
somewhere around there frames,
I'm going with two frames here, make a cut
and then make sure to duplicate that title,
you don't wanna be editing the same title.
What I'm doing here is just holding down Option
and then just moving it and that creates a duplicate
of that exact same title, but just a different file,
then we go in and we just choose a different font
and make sure it's quite a bit different from that last one,
you want there to be a change in the look,
then you basically just repeat this a few times,
maybe three or five times and then you end up
with the font that you want to be showing at the end.
You can play around with things like kerning
and the size of the titles, so they match better
or that there's a different look to each of the titles,
but really you're just playing around,
trying different titles
and it's actually really easy to make these.
Quick and easy, boom, you've got your titles,
that kind of just build out of nothing,
a really cool look, I like this one.
Next, you can actually track the titles to your footage
and there's a couple of different ways of doing this
and I'm gonna do all these in After Effects,
because I really think that the tracker
is really good in there and the easiest way to do this
is to just use the Motion Tracker,
you're just gonna choose a contrasty detail,
that the Tracker can track that movement
and then you're just gonna apply that information
to a Null Object and then just parent
your title to that Null Object,
a Null Object is just kind of like a placeholder,
it's just holding that information,
it's not visible in any way in your videos,
so you can just use the Null Object to hold that information
and then parent the title to that Null Object,
really quick, really easy,
but it's not always gonna be the best.
Another way which I think is the best way
is to actually do a 3D Track and it's in the same area,
you just Track Camera and once it's done analyzing,
you just choose some points, Make a Camera
and then you can use those points
to actually put titles in that exact spot,
so for example, here on this driving clip,
I wanna put a title kind of in the middle over the road,
so I'm gonna use this Null Object here
to get the position information,
then I'm just gonna Command copy that position information
and then paste it into the title
and then it's gonna stick exactly where that position was,
then I'm just gonna move it around a little bit,
so it looks even better, so it's a pretty easy way,
it does take some time and you do have to
do it in After Effects, but it is a really cool effect
and a cool way to get some titles into your films.
A really simple way to get some movement
or a little bit of animation to your titles
is by changing the scale and kerning.
Unfortunately you can't animate kerning in Premiere Pro,
which is basically just the distance
between letters in that title,
but you can do this really easily in After Effects,
just go to Animate and choose Tracking
and then I'm just gonna put some keyframes,
make it nice and subtle and then do the same with scale
and you have this nice, little zooming effect,
where the letters are kind of separating,
a lot of different Hollywood movies use this effect,
it just works, it's nice and simple and not too flashy,
remember rule number one, keep it simple, it just works.
Lastly, a really cool way to animate your titles
is to actually have this draw on effect
and again, we're gonna do this in After Effects
and basically you're just gonna use the Stroke effect.
Make sure All Masked is chosen, then just draw on lines,
so they cover your letters,
you can adjust the size of the brush
to make sure the whole letter is being covered by the line.
Keep adding a new mask for the lines of each letter
and then you just add keyframes for the ends,
so the letters are drawn on, it's really simple.
Make sure Reveal Original Image is chosen and there you go,
a really nice way to just kind of write on your titles
and you can really play around
with this look a little bit more,
I like to use the plugin Ease and Whizz
to just kind of really make it nice and smooth,
you can have it ease in at the beginning
and ease in at the end
or you can just have it ease in at the end,
so it gets written on really quickly,
but the end is nice and smooth
and then you can also add motion blur to this.
The traditional way of adding the motion blur,
it won't work, so you need to add Force Motion Blur,
it's really easy, it's just an effect,
you just drag and drop onto the title
and there you go, you have motion blur,
it makes it look a little bit more realistic
and a lot nicer in my opinion.
Another effect that you can play around with
is having each of the letters drawn on at the same time,
instead of sequentially, all you have to do
is click the Stroke Sequentially and there you go.
So there we go, five nice, easy ways
to make really nice looking titles,
next time you're thinking about your titles
and you're kind of struggling, check out this video
and use some of these ideas in your videos.
If you have any really cool ways to do titles,
make sure to comment them down below,
let's share our ideas,
so we can all get better at making really cool titles,
it can be really hard sometimes to make those nice titles,
but with the framework of keeping it simple,
think about the theme
and check out some other people's titles
and then using some of these examples that I gave you,
I know you guys are gonna be able
to make some really cool titles.
Alright, that's it for me today, guys,
I'm gonna go back to feeding the baby
and doing Dad things.
Guys, enjoy the filmmaking process
and go get some of those Travel Feels.
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