Okay, I can figure out most things in Adobe Premiere, but one thing that DOES NOT work is the titles. I read the help file, followed it word for word, but I cannot get the overlay of the title to work. Does anyone have any help for me?

Thanks alot.

Murphman Studios.

What do you mean overlay of the titles? I am not really sure of your problem. Are you using premiere 6.5 or 6 ?

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I'm not sure if this helps, but this is what I do:

1. Open the title program you wish to use (Title Detko, for example).
2. Make your title.
3. Save your title on your hardrive.
4. Import that title into Premiere (using the file name you saved it under).
5. Drag the title onto the timeline.

Hope that helps some. Good luck.

Mark M
Scooter Productions

I know how to do it that way, but there is a TITLE maker IN PREMIERE, and you can pake it and you save it as a premiere title overlay or something.

You can have different layers in Premiere, overlays, one frame on top of another. And that's what doesn't work. SO, for example, right now I could NOT make subtitles...and I want to be able to do that. So does ANYONE know how to do that?

Because I know how to make the title, but i can't add it to the movie...

Do you get it?

Murphman Studios.

Ah. Ok, I'm still not sure, as I've never overlayed titles before, but I opened Premiere 6.0 and opened TITLEDETKO.

When it opens, go to FILE and BACKGROUND and a dialogue box opens. One of the choices is "Background is clear and will overlay active video" or something like that.

Then make your title, import, etc.

I then assume you put the title in one of the timelines (video 1a or 2 or 3) at the point you want the text to appear on the video.

Again, this is an assumption and if anyone out there has done this or has a better suggestion, I'll bow to the expertise!

Again, hope this helps. If not, then I'll keep my mouth shut on this topic!

Mark M
Scooter Productions

No no no, your help is GREATLY appreciated. I need people like you to help, and other people need other people and so on and so forth. How else would we learn things?

But I'm going to try out what you said...be back in a jiff.

Murphman Studios.

Blazinggoat: REALLY? you can do it like that? I NEVER knew that...and the funny thing is, that makes SOOOO much sense...

I shall now try BOTH things.

Murphman Studios.

I looked and I have Title Deko when I go to "NEW" but it doesn't do anything when I click it...damn world!!!

And so I went to FILE > NEW > TITLE...and then I wrote out a sample title...(white background) wrote a little message in it...and put it in Video Track 2...while the video i was putting it OVER was in track 1A.

And hten I rendered and all i had was my message on white screen...

So now I"m trying it with it in video 1B while the video is in video 1A...

Nope...didn't work.

NOW, I'm trying to do it with Video in 1B and title in 1A...let's see...

Now the title is there again...UGH

VIDEO IN 2, TITLE IN 1B:....NOPE!!!
VIDEO IN 2, TITLE IN 1A:...BLAST!!!


Okay, I think I might have to go the Photoshop route...
ARGH!

Murphman Studios.

Brandini, I don't use PHOTOSHOP and that may be the answer you're looking for - but one suggestion on the NEW TITLE you tried last evening -

the title should NOT have a white background, but a CLEAR background. I assume the white background was covering up the video. If you can find that option, I think you're in.

Good luck. Now, I'll keep my mouth shut!

Mark M
Scooter Productions

None of that mouth shutting you keep speaking of...I appreciate your help...

Well, I'm using the background that it is on...you know? I don't change anything, but it's already white nad I'm assuming that white = transparents (especially with the whole thing about the white alpha matte)?

But I could be wrong...It would just be nice to figure this out so I didn't have to use ULEAD for titles only (hate taht program).

Murphman Studios.

I just don't know enough about overlays to be very helpful. When I make titles in Premiere, the 'automatic background' is black and that's what I get. I would assume that if yours is white, that white = white.

Can you change it to transparent?

Again, good luck.

Mark M
Scooter Productions

I'm going to try the Photoshop way...

I'll get back to ya'llz.

Murphman Studios.

Okay, I got it working with the Photoshop pictures, but I have run into YET another problem (BLAST!!!)...

With the words being JUSt white, I can't see anything, so I add an "OUTER GLOW" that is BLACK and gives it a good outline. And then when I add the picture to Premiere, it asks what layer I want to keep and I say the words, and everything works. EXCEPT I don't have my black outline...thus, I don't have any visible text (it's on snow...)

Any help?

Murphman Studios.

I'm sorry, but you're beyond me now. I haven't used Photoshop (though I have it) yet.

Good luck.

Mark M
Scooter Productions

Mark: Thanks for your time and patience...Anyone else got any hints?

Murphman Studios.

I keep lying and saying I'm going to shut up, but . . . I'm a liar.

I've used ILLUSTRATOR some and that program uses layers also. Can I assume that your title is one layer and the black glow is another layer?

If so, then maybe all layers aren't being imported into Premiere. On ILLUSTRATOR, there is a button on the layers palette to LOCK the layers together. Is that an option?

Again, I'm just blathering. I don't really know! These are just things I would try.

I would also try to change the color of my titles from white to something else if that didn't work.

Good luck. I feel like I'm giving birth!

Mark M
Scooter Productions

I was looking for that...but it is PART of the words layer...
Me = Confused...

Murphman Studios.

I tried the merged layers, and then it reads the background as WHITE...ARGH!!!
I'm doomed to have 'unseeable' subtitles. Unless I added a black bar to the bottom of the screen...but that's ugly.

Murphman Studios.

Dude, ok, here's what you do:

Make the background a drastically different color from the text in your titles. For example, if it's white text, use a black background, or a green one, or whatever. Do this by right clicking in the premiere title maker, going to "title window options", and selecting the background color.

Now put it in video track two over your video. Right click, go to video options > transparency. Select "chroma" from the pull-down menu. The image will appear.

In the picture of your title on the left, click the color that you want removed (example: the green background). On the rightmost box it should show a picture of what the video will look like once rendered. It should have both the video and the small title. Woo.

If it's not to your liking, adjust the "similarity", "contrast", etc bars at the bottom. The end.


Phew!

--Alan


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Murphman Studios.