Creating Text in Your Video Footage

Question 1

You can add text to your footage

Answer 1

Use the shortcut “T” or click on Title in your toolbox. You can also go to essential graphics which you can use to edit your text.

You can create text in layers

Question 2

How to place your text

Answer 2

You place your text on your timeline and it works like a layer. It will appear when your timeline reaches your text layer

Question 3

Look out for the align tools

Answer 3

I couldn’t see because the video was blurry, but I think you can go ahead and align your tools by going to essential graphics.

Question 4

Change fonts

Answer 4

Also in essential graphics. You can use strokes to make your text clearer on your video. As with most of the Adobe suite, you can change the order of layers to send it behind other layers and in front and so on

Question 5

Use shapes to make nice graphics to go with your text

Answer 5

You can do this in essential graphics. Use opacity to make these suitable for your footage.