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Editing and formatting text

  1. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  2. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  3. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  4. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  5. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    7. Creating specialty clips
    8. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  6. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  7. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Smart Trim
    6. Change clip speed and duration
    7. Split clips
    8. Freeze and hold frames
    9. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    10. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    11. Replace footage
    12. Working with source clips
    13. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    14. Trim clips
    15. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    16. Artistic effects
  8. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  9. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  10. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  11. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  12. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  13. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Align and transform objects
    9. Motion Titles
    10. Appearance of text and shapes
    11. Exporting and importing titles
    12. Arranging objects in titles
    13. Designing titles for TV
    14. Applying styles to text and graphics
    15. Adding a video in the title
  14. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  15. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

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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