Creating Graphic Objects - Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual

244 CHAPTER 7
Creating Titles
To preview rolling or crawling type:
Drag the slider at the bottom left corner of the Title window. Premiere plays back all rolling
or crawling text objects in the Title window. If you have imported a background frame (see
"Setting up the Title window" on page 234), Premiere uses the clip containing the background
frame as the duration for the rolling or crawling type, and plays it along with the type.
Note: This slider does not preview special timings. Special timings depend on the clip duration in
frames, which is determined by the Timeline. To preview special timings, add the title to a project
Timeline (see "Adding a title to a project" on page 255) and preview the Timeline.

Creating graphic objects

The Title window toolbox contains tools for creating graphic objects such as straight lines,
rectangles, ellipses, and polygons. Your polygons can have sharp, defined corners or you can
have Premiere smooth the corners into curves. Lines and shapes initially use the default line,
color, gradient, and shadow attributes. You can change these default attributes at any time;
see "Setting default text and graphic attributes" on page 253.
In the Title window, a graphic object can be either framed (outlined with no fill) or filled (filled
with no outline). You can convert between framed and filled objects. If you want a shape to have
both a fill and an outline, you must duplicate it and apply a fill to one and a line to the other.
To create a straight line:
Select the line tool in the toolbox (
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one use unless you double-click it as explained in "Creating text objects" on page 238.
Drag to draw the line, or hold down Shift as you drag to draw a constrained line at
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45-degree increments.
). Each tool reverts to the selection tool ( ) after