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Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart
Adding the title to the Timeline
Start the production process by adding the opening title to the Timeline. The title
includes an alpha channel, which allows the background video to be seen beneath
the title. The title was created from a template in Adobe Title Designer. (To access
Adobe Title Designer, choose File ➪ New ➪ Title.) We placed the title in the Video 2
track because it enables you to easily fade in the text over the video in lower tracks.
The diagonal line immediately below the track represents the fade-in effect.
See Chapter 8 to learn more about Adobe Title Designer.
The following steps explain how to add the title to the Timeline window, fading it in
and out:
1. Click the Nite Out title in the Project window and drag it into the Video 2
track.
2. Reduce the length of the title to 4 seconds by clicking and dragging left on
the right end of the title. Use the time readout at the top of the Timeline as a
guide.
3. Expand the Video 2 track to view its opacity control. To expand the track,
click the Display Opacity Rubberbands icon (small triangle at the left of track
Video 2). The red rubberband line enables you to control the title text’s
transparency.
4. Click the red line about a second into the title. This creates an anchor point.
5. Drag the left end point down to the bottom of the track (see Figure 1-8).
6. Repeat Steps 4 and 5 a second before the title ends.
Figure 1-8: The Opacity rubberband controls the
fade-in of the title text.
To remove a control point, click and drag it off the red rubberband line.
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