Welcome to the Corel tutorial on
Creating Advanced Titles in VideoStudio.
We will add advanced effects from
scratch to a very basic title, edit
effects already applied to a title
template, then animate a title along a
path. Before we begin, I recommend viewing
the Creating Basic Titles tutorial as a
prerequisite or even as a refresher. That
one will explain how we got to the
starting point of this tutorial.
Not required but definitely suggested! Or
if you wish, pause the video now and go
to the tutorial page to download the
smart package of files and the written
tutorial to follow along. Basic titling
includes simple placement and text
formatting, as well as taking advantage
of dozens of free included templates.
Advanced titling, although just slightly
more involved, can add superior effects
and quality to your project. Let me show
you how! Open your Basic Title
VideoStudio project, your .VSP file, or
follow along on this one. If you're
starting with this advanced tutorial,
instead of the basic one, you'll need
at least one video clip, or several still
pictures as content to overlay your
titles onto. Titles cannot be created
without content already in your video or
overlay track. Let's get started! Open
VideoStudio, into the Edit tab. As you
can see, I've opened up the finished
video I created for Basic Titles. I have
also created a new folder by choosing
the Add button, at the top here. Then I
dropped in some images to use as
backgrounds for my titles. You can, of
course, place titles onto videos, but this
allows me to line things up a bit easier.
I've placed three images into the video
track of the timeline. Notice they
automatically start at the beginning and
drop in sequentially after that.
VideoStudio does not allow for any blank
spaces on your video tracks. By double-clicking
on each image in the timeline, I use
the Options panel to make the
duration of each 5 seconds. You can also
manually drag out each one in the
timeline. Let's edit the titles by adding
and/or changing the existing effects,
starting with the first one.
Double-click on the first title in the
timeline to bring up the Options
panel again. In the Basics
Tutorial, we spent most of our time here.
For the Advanced Tutorial, we'll move
over to the Attribute tab. Animation is
usually the default selection, but it
won't engage until you click Apply. Click
Apply to display dozens of choices
listed in several categories. From the
drop-down list, select the Swing
category. Again, making sure the first
title is selected by double-clicking it
on the timeline,
simply select the first choice in the
second row. No need to drop it on the
title itself. To preview it, click Project
in the Preview window, rewind, and play
through this part.
Let's go back to the Attribute tab. I
want to point out the blue line in the
Preview window. This denotes where the
title gets paused in the animation
sequence. In other words, after it stops
animating in, and before it departs the
screen. To create a faster or shorter
in-and-out animation, simply use your
mouse to adjust it in the Preview window,
like this. Or use the Effects attributes
accessed by double-clicking the TT (double T icon).
I'll make the animation last a
little longer by choosing Intermediate
from the Pause drop-down. You can see the
other options available, as well. Let's
preview it again. See how easy that was?
Let's now add a filter from the right
side of the Attribute window. Be sure the
first title is double-clicked to select it
in the Attribute tab. Then, click the
Filter radio button. The Title Effects
gallery should display on the left.
Drag and drop the Vignette effect right
onto the title in the timeline. Then, do
the same thing to the Wind effect.
Yes, you can actually stack multiple effects
onto a title. Let's now look at how to
customize the Effects we just applied.
Select the Vignette effect in the
Attribute panel. It will turn blue.
Then, click the Customize Filter icon.
This displays a "before" window on the
left, and an "after" window on the right,
and a timeline of the effect below. In
the timeline are two small diamonds. In
this case, one at the start, and the other
at the end. These are keyframes that
represent the start and end of a sequence of
effects. Keyframes are where things start,
change, and end.
You can add additional keyframes, then
change the effect. In this case, you can
change the settings of the softness of
the vignette at any point, where the
setting can reverse direction, speed,
and/or intensity. Although we can't
keyframe these attributes, you can also
change the shape of the vignette, and the
background color, but they will change
throughout the effect. Let's see what the
Wind effect has to offer. Click to
highlight the Wind effect, and click
Customize Filter. As I click Play, we can
see the level of the Wind effect
increases slightly over time. To make
some changes, I will place the playback
head at the halfway point on the
timeline, then I'll click the Add
Keyframe icon on the far left. Where I
added the keyframe, I can change the wind
strength. I will turn it all the way up.
I'll then go to the final keyframe and
crank it up again. This will have the
effect of the wind increasing quickly to
its maximum at the midpoint, and staying
that way all the way to the end. When I
preview this, watch how the Level slider
changes. There are some other changes you
can make, such as Direction and Mode, but
I'll let you try those out on your own. Click
OK to return to the Main window, and
preview it again. Let's jump to the next
title and take a look. Let's preview it
first.
Double-click on the second title
in the timeline to open the Options area.
In the Edit tab, you can see that the
title, which came from one of
VideoStudio's templates, uses the second
animation in the first row. Click on the
TT icon to customize it. Change it to
Enter from the top and Exit at the
bottom. Click OK and preview it.
Easy, huh? Click the Filter radio button.
Currently, there are no filters attached
to this effect. Drag and drop the Mirror
title effect right onto the second
title in the timeline. If you like, click
Customize Filter and see what changes
you can make. Try a few, preview them, and
click OK when you're done. Let's preview
these new adjustments. Did you know that
you can save any titles and
customizations you create for future use?
Click the second title once to highlight
it. Under the Titles gallery, choose the
My Favorites drop-down and click the Add
icon, the one with a star on it. That's
all there is to it!
Alright, one last title effect I'd like
to quickly show is adding an animated
path onto a title. Click the third and
last title once in the timeline. Click
Play to preview what it currently looks like.
And this time, open the Path library. Drag
and drop the rotating star path, the one
labeled P03, onto the title in the
timeline and preview it.
Do the same thing to the path labeled
P06, the rather diamond-shaped one, and
preview that. You'll notice a couple
things. First, any newly added path will
replace a previous one, along with any
animations previously added, including
those from templates. Second, any title
effects will still remain. So, that's a
pretty good preview of the possibilities
of title effects. There are still many
other effects and customizations you can
add to titles in VideoStudio. If you're
watching this video on YouTube, you'll
find a link in the description below
that will take you to our tutorial page
on the Discovery Center. Here, you can
download a written copy of this tutorial to
follow along at your own pace,
and find many other helpful tutorials
for Corel VideoStudio Pro.