Creating a text style template
Modifying text parameters in the Inspector is a relatively painless process, but it can be quite time-consuming if you modify 10 different stylistic parameters and then realize you need to create the same style over and over again for multiple title clips later in your project.
While you can duplicate title clips for reuse in a project and modify the duplicates, this can get a bit tedious. It's much more efficient to make one title clip look the way you want and then save those settings as a preset.
How to do it...
1. Add a Basic Title clip to your timeline. You can connect it to another clip or just place it in your primary storyline.
2. In the Basic Title's Inspector window, under the Text tab, type in
Presets Save Time
, one word on each line. Adjust the font and size so that it takes up most of the screen (we chose Snell Roundhand and a font size of 224). Adjust the tracking to around 50 percent. These parameters are known as your basic attributes.The white...