This article is part of a with tips and tricks from our producers’ experience working with after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out .
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There’s a critical difference between the title tool in Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro. In FCP, one could slice a title that’s already in the timeline, open it in the Viewer window, then change the contents so that you now had two distinct titles.
This does not work in Premiere Pro.
In Premiere Pro each title is a distinct instance. So, if you splice a title in the timeline then change its content, you will also change the content of the first title as well. Both titles will say the same thing.
The only way around this is to create a new title instance for every subtitle. It’s a cumbersome process and one that we wish Adobe would change.
In the Project window create a new bin (Command – /). Name it Subtitles.
Open the title tool (Command-T).
In the New Title window, name the title temp. The title size will default to your current sequence size.
When the title tool opens, press T for the Type Tool, then click inside the rectangle. Use 38pt Arial, then type a short phrase. If you plan to use drop shadow, and you should, add it here as well. ( will follow up this post with a more detailed look at the functionality of the Title Tool.)
Use the Horizontal Center tool to align the title in the middle of the screen.
Close the title tool.
Drag the title from Project window to your Timeline.
To create a new title, simply click the New Title Based on Current Style button at the top right of the Title tool.
At MediaStorm we no longer use burned-in timecode. We use XML to generate titles in our .
Drop Shadow – Standard effect, change opacity to 90%
If narrative is more than 15 frames from the end or beginning of a cut, set subtitle to start 10 frames before the start or end of narrative, then place 8 frame fade on subtitle.
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