Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Titles and Working with Text
There are two ways to work with text in your video project: one is to create your text in a
separate Photoshop document (as if you were creating a slide for a slide show), and then
bring that into your project, or you can just add your text directly into your video project,
and here you'll learn both (and a couple of tips along the way).
Step One:
The nice thing about adding text to your videos in Photoshop is that you get to use all the
regular type controls. But, before we start adding type to our video, if you're primarily go-
ing to do title slides (an opening slide or a closing slide), you might want to consider just
building those separately in Photoshop and then dragging them into your video timeline.
To do that, go under the File menu, choose
New
, and then from the Preset pop-up menu,
choose
Film & Video
. That gives you a bunch of preset video sizes in the Size pop-up
menu. Choose the one that matches the video you're going to be working with (in my case,
it was HDTV 1080p/29.97). This creates a new document, which you can treat just like a
photo (add backgrounds, text, and so on).
