I mentioned earlier that you might need After Effects in order to do some fancier motion graphics, and while that’s true, the clever bods at Adobe have made it so that you can use motion graphics templates in Premiere Pro in a much more integrated way. Advanced Text in Premiere Pro Using a Template You might use keyframes to add a spinning effect on a title, or create rolling credits.Īll in all, this is a very quick and simple, but fairly limited way of creating text for your video -for many films, this may be all that’s required. If you want to add some basic animation to your text, then you can use the Effect Controls panel, where you can add motion. Open up the Essential Graphics panel ( Window > Essential Graphics) and you’ll be able to make basic edits to your text like font changes, size, colour and so on. If you don’t have this tool visible, you may need to go to Windows > Tools and click and hold on Type Tool. Select the Type Tool and drag a box onto your video to write some text into. Premiere Pro will let you change things like font, colour, size and certain types of animation. If you want to do something a little fancier, you might also need After Effects. To add simple text, Premiere Pro has everything you need built in. This might also include closed captions.Īdd Basic Text in Premiere Pro Using the Type Tool

Descriptors or dialogue: Help move the story along or to explain things that don’t come across in the audio.

Credits: Some can come at the start too, but usually these are at the end, displaying everyone’s role in the film.

Lower Thirds: Information presented as text, like the name and title of an interviewee in a documentary for example.

Titles: these are usually a visually creative way of engaging your audience from the beginning of the film.

How to Add Text in Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro TutorialĮven the simplest video can benefit from adding words on screen.

Text overlays premiere pro