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CREATING DYNAMIC TITLES
Topics covered in this lesson
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Strengthening your project with titles
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Changing text parameters
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Building text from scratch
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Putting text on a path
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Creating shapes
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Making text roll and crawl
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Applying text effects such as sheens, strokes, shadows, and fills
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Copying titles to other Adobe applications
This lesson will take approximately 90 minutes.

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The Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Titler is a multifaceted, 
feature-rich text- and shape-creation tool. Your Titler-
designed text and objects can run superimposed over 
video as static titles, as rolling credits, or as stand-
alone clips.

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LESSON 7
Creating Dynamic Titles
Getting started
On-screen text helps tell your story. You can reinforce your message by using 
superimposed text (aka 
supers
) to give a location or an interviewee’s name and title, 
to show on-screen bullet points, and to display opening titles and closing credits.
Text can present information much more succinctly and clearly than narration. It 
can also reinforce narrated and visual information by reminding viewers about the 
people in your piece and the message you’re trying to convey.
The Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Titler offers you a full range of text- and shape-cre-
ation options. You can use any font on your computer. Your text and objects can be 
any color (or multiple colors), any degree of transparency, and a variety of shapes. 
Using the Path tool, you can place your text on the most convoluted curved line 
you can imagine.
The Titler is an engaging and powerful tool. Its infinite customizability makes it 
possible for you to create a look unique to your productions.