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Adding Titles
There’s a collection of titles and generators in the Toolbox that you can use to create leader
when outputting to tape, add slates, create subtitles, and otherwise fulfill any textual needs your
program has.
The available titles in the toolbox
Titles and generators can be edited much like any other clip. Furthermore, when selected, both
titles and generators expose the same Composite, Transform, and Cropping parameter groups
as any other clip; these parameters can be used to composite titles and fly them around in
order to create different text effects.
Methods of adding and editing generators and titles:
To drag and drop a generator directly into the Timeline: If you simply drag and
drop titles or generators into the Timeline, the default duration of the resulting clip is
5 seconds. This duration can be customized in the Edit panel of the User Preferences.
To edit a generator using the edit overlays of the Timeline Viewer: Click the
destination control of the clip you want to edit a generator into, then set Timeline In and
Out points to define the duration of the resulting edit, and drag the generator you want
to edit onto the edit overlay of the Timeline Viewer that corresponds to the type of edit
you want to perform.
To reposition the text of a title in the Timeline Viewer: Select the title generator you
want to edit in the Timeline, then click the visible text in the Timeline Viewer so that
its bounding box is selected; in this state you can reposition, scale, and rotate the text
item. As you reposition text, it will snap to key regions of the frame such as the vertical
and horizontal center of the Viewer; hold the Option key down to suspend snapping if
you want to freely position the text.
To edit the text of a title in the Timeline Viewer: Select the title generator you want to
edit in the Timeline, then double-click the visible text in the Timeline Viewer to insert
a text editing cursor. At this point, you can select, delete, or add any text you want by
typing directly in the Timeline Viewer.
To edit the parameters of a generator or title: Open the Inspector, and select the
generator or title you want to edit to open it into the Inspector.
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