How to make titles in Premiere Pro

When making a video in Premiere Pro, knowing how to make titles can really help in conveying information, especially for news headlines or similar situations. A title, to clarify, is when you have text appear on the screen in some way. It's pretty useful in a lot of situations, like clarifying who someone is in an interview or scrolling text like on a news channel. There are many more situations that would call for titles, so it's an important skill for a video editor to have.

Step 1: Open the title creator with either "Command + t" or by right clicking and choosing "New Item" in the Project tab, where your clips are.

Step 2: In the Title Creator, you can use the tools and the sidebar to make the text look any way you want, but be sure to keep the text within the Title-Safe zone, which is the smaller of the 2 rectangles that will appear in the window.

Step 3: Once you have chosen the style and placement of the text, just exit out of the Title Creator; it will save automatically.

Step 4: Insert the title into your timeline, on the layer above your normal footage. From here, you can add effects and transitions to the title, and change how long it stays on screen.

With titles, you should be able to add a whole new layer (literally and figuratively) to your videos, displaying information in a new way.