How to: Put Text over video in Adobe Premiere Pro

Step 1/5:

-Select the video clips that you want for your remix, and put them in the order you desire.

Step 2/5:

-On the top of the screen, click on the “Title” Tab.

Then click on “New Title”

Then “Default Still”

Step 3/5:

-A screen will prompt you to add your own text. It should look similar to this (see figure below):

From this window you type the text you desire, you can also edit the font, the color, the size and the position. You can also edit at what point of the video you are in so you can see how the color and positioning would look with the video.

-When you are done, just simply click the red x in the top left corner of the prompt screen.

Step 4/5:

-Once you make a title, you can find it in the left column in the premiere interface.

You can double click these if you want to go back in and edit the title you already created.

Step 5/5:

In order to put them over the video, simply drag them over video segments.

The length of the title can be adjusted by clicking on the pink block and dragging the length. Another method is to drag multiple titles over segments, even if they are the same.