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LESSON 7
Creating Dynamic Titles
Adding text effects: sheens, 
strokes, shadows, and fills
Reverse engineering can be a good learning tool. So, in this exercise, you will 
deconstruct one of the many built-in templates that come with Adobe Premiere Pro 
to learn how to work with the Titler’s effects.
Unlike styles, templates are a combination of background graphics, geometric 
shapes, and placeholder text. They are organized into themes with enough variety 
for just about any circumstance.
Templates are tremendously useful. You can easily customize graphic themes to 
suit your needs or build your own templates from scratch and save them for future 
projects. Let’s begin:
1
Choose Title > New Title > Based on Template.
2
Open as many template folders, and click through as many templates, as 
you like.
3
Open the Lower Thirds folder, select Lower Third 1024, and click OK.
4
Click the Selection tool, and move it over the title.
Bounding boxes appear, delineating the three components of this title: the 
Title 
One
text, a brown and yellow rectangle, and a black rectangle with a gradient 
fill superimposed over the right side of the brown and yellow rectangle.
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 Note:
You can 
also open the Titler 
and choose Title > 
Templates to get to the 
same Templates screen.
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 Note:
This is a good 
template to experiment 
with because it has a 
full range of effects, 
including a four-color 
gradient, reduced 
opacity (transparency), 
a sheen, a stroke, and 
shadows.

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Drag each bounding box in turn up the screen so you can see the template’s 
three components.
Your Titler panel should look something like the one shown here.
6
Drag the top edge of the brown and yellow rectangle to expand it.
It is now selected, and its characteristics are displayed in the Titler Properties 
panel.