Subtitles of the Movie

We saw an example of Shape Objects and Fills in the earlier Template Text tutorial where we chose a wood grain Template from Adobe's defaults. Now if you wish to create your own Shape Objects and Fills then this tutorial is for you. Let's open another Title. Go to Title, New Title, Default Still, click OK. I'll just roll my mouse over this division here and just drag to the right there, to about there, so I can see these tools here. So if we look in this Title Tools Panel toward the bottom here we can access, as you can see, a variety of Shape tools ranging from Rectangle Tool, Rounded Corner Rectangle Tool, Clipped Corner Rectangle Tool, Rounded Rectangle Tool, a Wedge Tool, an Arc Tool, an Ellipse Tool and a Line Tool. Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose one of these tools and I'm going to go for the first one, we may as well, the Rectangle Tool there and then I'm just going to draw within my Design Area. I'll just draw a shape and I'll go to the top there, right in that top corner and I'll just drag right across to around there so it covers the top half of the screen there. Well, what you've done so far is you've created a Shape Object. If I want to now add depth and color to this I need to head over to the Title Properties area over here and by coming down to this section here where it says Fill Type and using this drop-down Reveal here we get to choose from all these different options: Solid, Linear, Gradient, Radial Gradient, 4 Color Gradient, Bevel, Eliminate and Ghost. I'll just go through them with you. Well, as you can see, Solid, which is the one we've got highlighted at the moment is just a solid slap of color there and in this case it's white, but we could choose another color. Shall we choose a color more sympathetic to the actual photograph underneath? Let's choose the Color Picker there and we'll just roll over one of these darker green colors of the grass there, or perhaps from the wood itself. Maybe around there, that should do us. Or possibly let's just go to the drop-down and choose Linear Gradient. By clicking on there we now reveal this line here and we get two different color sections. Now, what the Linear Gradient will do, this fill will morph from one color to another in a straight line so let's just choose our first color as green now, we're happy with that, but our second color, shall we choose a different color? Let's just double-click on there and perhaps a darker green, maybe from about there, click OK. And now can you see how the Linear Gradient morphs from one color to another, two different types of green? It doesn't have to be the same color. It could be red or blue going from yellow or purple and gradienting, if there's such a word, between those two colors. Let's have a look at the next one down, the Radial Gradient and the Radial Gradient really acts in the same way as the Linear Gradient but with a circular pattern. See the circular pattern there? So we've got the lighter green shade in the middle radially gradiating out to the dark green. Let's choose another one. Drop down to the 4 Color Gradient and now we get a similar greenish gradient area here but now we can choose different colors and notice that these four different squares are in the corners, so the colors are going to emanate from each of these different corners. So, we'll leave the top left as it is. Let's just click to open this for the top right and shall we choose something radically different, a blue there. Notice now we have blue coming from that corner. Perhaps in this bottom left corner let's choose something again radically different; shall we go for a yellowy gold there and click on there. So now we can see this 4 Color Gradient Fill Type has got four different types of color. We've got the original green up here, then the yellow down here, blue up here and a darker green down here. Again, you can use whatever colors you prefer. Let's move down again to Bevel there. Now what the Bevel does, it gives a short of chiseled look, but we need to adjust the size here, so I'll just left-click on Size there and drag to the right there. OK? And we get this beveled look between these two colors, the blue of the highlight color and the shadow color being green. But again, we can adjust those to whatever we want them to be. If I come down to the next one, Eliminate, this one down here, then Eliminate completely takes away anything that was in it and really what the Eliminate Fill does, it makes this particular Shape Object, it makes it become transparent and unable therefore to create any kind of shadow behind it if we wanted to add a shadow. However, if you do want to add a shadow you have to choose the next option, the Ghost option, which is down here and you're now asking why can't I see a shadow? Well, that's because the Shadow area here, this Shadow checkbox, has not been ticked, so let's tick it now and then you can see a Shadow area has been created behind it. It's still transparent but it creates a shadow area behind it. OK? So, I'll just click to close and shall we bring this in on top of our clip and we can just see there we have our transparent area, we have a bit of shadow behind it. OK, so that's how we use Shape Objects and Fills and, of course, as you could see, there's plenty of scope within the Title Properties Panel to adjust and play around until you get something that you're happy with. OK, so that's the end of this particular section on using Titles within Premiere Pro. OK! I'll see you in the next section.