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Editing and formatting text

Select a title for editing

Before you can edit a title, you must select it in the Monitor panel.

  1. Do one of the following:
    • In the Quick view timeline, select the title clip or the clip on which the title is superimposed. In the Monitor panel, click the clip to select it, and then double-click the text to edit.

    • In the Expert view timeline, you may need to use the scroll bars along the right side to see a title on the Video track to which the title has been applied.

    The title-editing tools appear and the tool changes to the Type tool. The Project Assets panel changes to display text options, where you can specify options for the text in your title.

  2. Do one of the following in the Monitor panel:
    • To move the insertion point, click between characters or use the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys.

    • To select a single character or group of contiguous characters, drag from the blinking insertion-point cursor to highlight the characters.

    • To format an entire text or graphic object, click the object to select it, and then modify its attributes.

Wrap text automatically

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Choose Text > Word Wrap.

    • Right-click/ctrl-click in the Monitor panel and choose Word Wrap.

  3. Click in the Monitor panel and type your title.

The words are automatically wrapped and a new line of text starts when the cursor reaches the safe-title margin.

Set font, style, and size

Some object properties, such as fill color and shadow are common to all objects you create. Other properties are unique to text objects. You can find text controls such as font, font style, and type alignment, in the Adjust panel. You can also find text controls in the pop-up menu that appears when you right-click/ctrl-click a box in the Monitor panel.

Font options in the Adjust panel

A. Font options B. Font style options 

Note:

You can quickly apply a favorite set of attributes (color, shadow, and so on) to any object by using the Styles section of the Adjust panel.

Specify a font

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Monitor panel, select the text and do one of the following:
    • In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, choose a font from the Font menu.

Specify a font style

Many fonts include built-in variations, such as bold, italic, and narrow fonts. The specific variations depend on the font.

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Monitor panel, select the text.
  3. In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, do any of the following:
    • Choose a style from the Font Style menu.

    • Click one or more of the font style icons: Bold, Italic, Underline.

      note: If the typeface doesn’t include bold or italic versions, their font style icons appear dimmed. You can underline any font.

Change the font size

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Monitor panel, select the text and do one of the following:
    • In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, change the Size value.

    • Right-click/ctrl-click the title on the Monitor panel and choose Size from the context menu.

Set alignment and orientation

Change paragraph text alignment

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Monitor panel, select a paragraph text object.
  3. In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, do one of the following:
    • To align text with the left side of the box, click Left Align Text.

    • To center the text in the box, click Center Text.

    • To align text on the right side in the box, click Right Align Text.

Change text orientation

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Monitor panel, select a text object.
  3. Select either Horizontal Type Tool or Vertical Type Tool in the Adjust panel.

Reflow paragraph text

  1. In the Monitor panel, select a paragraph text object.
  2. Drag any handle of the text’s bounding box to resize the box.

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