Hello there, welcome to this video guide! Let's see shortly how to add and
edit text and titles with Pinnacle Studio 20!
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Let's suppose to have a project ready, and to add a piece of text on it.
To add text, just click on Create Title right above the timeline. This
creates a new text clip on the timeline, placed where the red playhead is.
Also, a big dialog box opens, called Title Editor. This is used to fully
edit and customize the overall content of the text clip interested, such as
the text appearance, its background and effects. When all your
modifications are applied, just close the Title Editor to save them.
The text clip created is represented as a green block inside your timeline,
with a thumbnail showing what the text looks like. The way to edit and
manage these clips is completely identical to image or video clips.
Make sure that the text clip is placed above the image or videos interested,
otherwise you won't see it. The text clip must overlap your clips from an
upper track in your timeline.
To edit text again, just double-click on it to open the Title Editor. Let's
see how to use it more in detail.
The Title Editor opens with a big preview on the center, that shows your
title clip appearance among your main timeline content. In this way, you
can change the text properties to fit your video project better, without
using the main Preview inside Pinnacle Studio. Also, you can use the
preview inside the Title Editor to type and edit your piece of text.
The piece of text is contained inside a small box that delimits it. You can
scale the text box by clicking and dragging from its white nodes. Depending
on its shape, the text distribution changes. Also, you can move the text by
clicking and dragging from the box boundaries, and rotate it by using the
central node.
On the right, you have a panel used to adjust the text properties and
appearance. Before modifying text, make sure to have any selected. In fact,
the changes are applied just on the text that is selected.
Under Text Settings, you can adjust the text font style, size, family and
distribution. Under Look Settings, you can manage three of the main text
effects, such as the filling color (also called Face), the outline glow
(also called Edge), and any colored Shadow, by using the three A buttons.
By default, you have one Face effect applied, which sets the main filling
color for the text, including its size, and any blur and transparency level.
Under Fill, you can choose the color to use. Click on the square to choose
between a unique and solid color, or even a two-color gradient. Also, you
can drag and drop there a picture or a video from the Navigation panel on
the left to perform the effect with it.
When you add other Face, Edge or Shadow effects, the interface is the same.
Eventually, you can use OffsetX and OffsetY to regulate the effect position.
Next to each effect name, you have the bin button, uses to remove the
effect from the list; or an orange square that you can use to enable or
disable the effect without deleting it.
Under Background Settings, you can apply a background on the text clip.
Click on Background Drop Zone to add a solid color, or a two-color gradient.
Or, you can simply drag and drop any picture or video on the Drop Zone to
use these. Use the Opacity bar on the right to regulate the transparency
level of the background, in order to show all the clips that stay behind
the text clip.
That's all you need to create and customize a static 2D text. But, through
the Title Editor, you can also make the text animated, by applying
transitions and motion effects.
On top of the Title Editor, you have two different sections available: the
Looks and the Motions. The first one is used to adjust the main text
properties, seen so far. The second one includes all the effects and
transitions you can apply to your text to make it move. This is divided in
three parts. Enter collects several fade-in transitions, which are special
effects used to make your text appear with cool effects. Hover on one to
check it on the Preview. To apply one, just click on it. The fade-in
transition applied is shown as a dashed line on the local timeline below,
and you can regulate its duration in time by clicking and dragging from its
edges.
If you choose the Exit section, you will add a fade-out transition instead,
used to make the text disappear in a cool way.
Whereas, the Emphasis section adds a motion effect to your text, during all
the time this is shown, between the two Enter and Exit transitions. This is
represented by a straight solid line.
The local timeline below shows the overall content of the text clip,
including the effects and transitions applied, and their duration. This is
extended in time as much as the text clip lasts inside the main timeline.
Also, in case you would like to remove any of the Motions effects, just
right-click on the layer affected, go to Motions, and then select the
motion to remove.
Each text clip can contain even more than a single piece of text. It can
include other titles, and even pictures and videos. Each added object is
represented in the local timeline as one row called layer, regulated and
managed as seen for the clips inside the main timeline. You can either
move, stretch, or pull them up or down to regulate their visibility.
You can add other titles by clicking on Add Text Layer; add geometrical
shapes by using the Shape tool; or even add pictures and videos by dropping
them from the Navigation panel on the left.
Make sure to get all your text layers on top, in order not to get them
overlapped by other objects inside the text clip.
To add text, you can eventually use ready-made text templates inside
Pinnacle Studio, all collected inside the Navigation panel. Just go to
Content and then to Titles to drag and drop a template on your timeline.
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