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Creating multiple titles and lower thirds

Creating multiple titles and lower thirds - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing

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Creating multiple titles and lower thirds

Once your documentary is ready to go, you'll want to add titles. Now, by far, the most common type of title for a documentary is the lower-third, which is a title that identifies a speaker. Depending on your workflow, you may send your titles to be created by a motion graphics expert who might use a third-party program like Adobe After Effects, and then you just import the titles during the final phase of the edit, and that's fine. However, there is a nice titling and graphics program right insight Media Composer called Avid Marquee that allows you to mass create your titles. So that's what I want to show you. All right, so I have my sequence here, and it's ready for titles, and I want to open up marquee, so I'm going to go to Tools > Title tool Application, and there are Two Title Tools in Marquee. There is the Title Tool, it's very, very basic rudimentary editor, and then there's Marquee. So I'm going to choose that. And I can create my title from scratch, that's totally okay. If…

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