How to Insert Text in Adobe Premiere

This article shows you how to insert text in Adobe Premiere. Adobe recently added a new text tool to Premiere that allows you to easily insert text into your movies. For earlier versions of Adobe Premiere, you can insert text using headings.

Table of Contents

Using the text tool

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Open the Premiere project. You can open an Adobe Premiere project by navigating to the file while using File Explorer on Windows, or Finder on Mac and then double-clicking it.

You can also open Adobe Premiere and click File and then Open to browse the files. Click an Adobe Premiere project and click Open . You can also open a file by clicking on it in the most recent files section displayed when you open Adobe Premiere. Adobe Premiere is the app with the word “Pr” in a purple square.

Drag the Playhead to the position where you want to insert the text. The playhead is the vertical line that appears on the timeline in the panel below the screen. The timeline is a window that shows all video, audio, and image files in the order in which they appear in the project. When you drag the Playhead, the video frame will appear in the preview window in the upper right corner panel.

Click the text tool. The text tool is an icon that looks like the letter T. You can find it in the toolbar.

Make sure you are running the latest version of Adobe Premiere. If you’re using an earlier version of Adobe, see method 2.
If you don’t see the toolbar, click Window at the top of the screen, then click Tops in the drop-down menu. ^{[1] X Research Source}

Click or drop a tile in the program preview window. Click where you want to insert text in the program preview window. Click once to add a line of text. Click and drop to create a text box that shrinks the text you type within the border of the text box. This adds and turns text into a new graphic layer. You are allowed to create multiple text layers.

Type a line of text. You can type a short subject line, or a long sentence.

Move the text with the Move tool. The move tool is the icon that looks like an arrow in the toolbar. This tool allows you to move the text where you want it.

Use the “Text” menu to adjust the style. The “Text” menu is located in both the Effects Contrp and Essential Graphics windows. If you don’t see these windows, you can click the Window menu at the top of the screen, then click the Effects Contrp or Essential Graphics option. The options below are all available in the “Text” menu. ^{[2] X Research Source}

Select the font face in the first drop-down menu.
Choose a style (eg bold, italic) in the second drop-down menu. You can also click the buttons at the bottom of the Text menu to apply the style.
Use the slider to adjust the font size.
Click the buttons with skewed lines to align the text left, center, or right.

Use the Appearance menu to change the color of the text. The Appearance menu is also located within the Essential Graphics and Effects Contrp menus. There are three ways for you to change the color of the text. Click the tick box next to each option to apply a color style. Then, click the color box next to each option to get a color from the color picker. You can also click the Eye-dropper color picker to select a color from the video playback in the Program Preview window. There are three color options as follows:

The Fill color option changes the color of the letter.
The Stroke option creates a border around the letter. You can type the number on the right to adjust the thickness of the border.
The Shadow color option creates a shadow effect below the text. Use the slider below this option to adjust the size, transparency, and angle of the shadow.

Use the Align and Transform menu to adjust the position of the text. The Align and Transform menu has many tools to help you adjust the position of your text. This menu is available in both the Essential Graphics and Effects Contrp windows. Use the tools below to adjust the position of the text.

The Position tool allows you to adjust the position of the text along the vertical and horizontal axes.
The Rotation tool allows you to rotate text.
Click two or more objects and click the alignment buttons to align the corresponding object.
The Opacity tool will adjust the transparency of the text.

Animate text. The Effects Contrp window allows you to animate text. Drag the Playhead to where you want the animation to start. Click the stopwatch next to the transform tool in the Effects Contrp window. Move the Playhead to where you want the animation to end and apply the adjustment to the text. Adobe Premiere will slowly apply a frame-by-frame transformation between the two keyframes. You can apply multiple transformations in one movie clip. Click the stopwatch when you are satisfied with all the animations you want to apply. ^{[3] X Research Sources}

Save the text as Master Style. If you like the look of the current text, you can save it as a Master Style. This allows you to apply the same style to other lines of text. Follow the steps below to save the Master Style. The Master Style option is located in the Essential Graphics window.

Click to select text in the Program Preview window or the Essential Graphics window.
Select Create Master Text Style from the drop-down menu under “Master Styles”.
Type a name for the Master Style.
Click OK .

Apply Master Style. After saving the Master Style, you can apply it to other text graphics by following the steps below.

Create a line of text with the Text tool.
Click to select text image.
Select the Master Style to apply in the drop-down menu under “Master styles”.

Adjust the length of time the text appears. When you insert text in Adobe Premiere, it appears as an image in the timeline. To adjust how long the text stays on screen in the video, click to the right of the graphic file in the timeline and drag it left or right.

Using Legacy Title

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Open the Premiere project. You can open an Adobe Premiere project by navigating to the file while using File Explorer on Windows, or Finder on Mac, and then double-clicking it. You can also open Adobe Premiere, then click File and then click Open to search for the file. Next, click an Adobe Premiere project and then click Open . You can also open a file by clicking on it in the most recent files section that appears when you open Adobe Premiere. Adobe Premiere is an application that writes “Pr” in a purple square.

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Create a new title. The title serves as an overlay that appears at the top of the video clip in Adobe Premiere. You must create a title to insert text in older versions of Adobe Premiere, and the latest version will support titles. Follow the steps below to create a new title.

Click File in the upper right corner located at the top of the screen.
Click New in the “File” drop-down menu.
Click Legacy Title . This option may be listed as “Title” in earlier versions of Premiere.

Type a name for the title and click Ok . Type the title next to the word “Name”. The title’s name doesn’t have to be exactly the same as the text that appears in the title. This step opens the title editing window.

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Click the text tool. The text tool is an icon that looks like the letter T. You can find it in the toolbar on the side of the title editing window.

Click or drop a cell in the preview window. The preview window in the title editor will show the current frame that Playhead is pointing at in the timeline at the bottom of the screen. Click to add a line of text, or drag to create a box that limits the text’s border.

Type a line of text. The text can be a headline in words, or an entire paragraph.

Use the selection tool to move the text. If you need to move text, click the arrow-like icon in the toolbar, then click and drag the text in the title editing window.

Use the Font Family drop-down menu to choose a font. You can see the Font Family drop-down menu in the Title Properties sidebar on the right side of the title editing window, and in the text editor at the top.

Use the Font Style drop-down menu to choose a font style. There are many font styles that are bold, italic, and more for each particular font type. The Font Style drop-down menu can be found in the Title Properties sidebar to the right of the title editing window, and in the text editor at the top.

Click and drag the number next to “Font Size”. This step helps you to adjust the size of the text. You can adjust the font size in the “Title Properties” sidebar menu, or in the text editing tool at the top of the title editing window.

Click the buttons with the skewed lines to align the text. You can align text left, center, or right.

Select text color in Title Properties. It’s the box next to the word “Cpor” below “Fill” in the sidebar to choose the text color. Use the color picker to choose a color for the text. You can also click the dropper icon to choose a color from the preview in the title editor.

You can use the drop-down menu to choose another fill style, such as a Gradient style, by using the drop-down menu below “Fill”. You will see more colored cells to choose from, with the aim of gradually changing from one color to another.
To add a border around the text, click Add next to “Inner Stroke” or “Outer Stroke”. Click the colored box next to “Cpor” to choose a color for the border. You can also adjust the size of the border by clicking and dragging the number next to “Size”.

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Click the title style. To quickly select a style, click one of the heading styles at the bottom of the title editing window. Each square at the bottom has a sample of the text style. Click the style you want to select.

Click the “X” button to exit the title editor. The “X” button is in the upper left corner for Mac, and in the upper right corner for Windows. This will help you exit the title editor. The title will be saved as an object file in the project window. If you don’t see the project window, you need to click Window at the top of the screen and click Project .

If at any point you need to edit the title, double-click it in the Project window.

Drag the title from the project window to the timeline. Place the Playhead in the timeline where you want the text to appear. Then drag the title from the project window to the timeline. Make sure you put the title above any other video clips in the timeline. This helps to display text at the top of the video. ^{[4] X Research Sources}

Drag the sides of the title to adjust how long it appears. To adjust how long the text stays on screen during the video, click to the left of the title file in the timeline and drag it left or right.

Steps

Using the text tool

Using Legacy Title

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