In this video, we're going to look at how to put multiple titles onto one clip, if you haven't watched
the video of how to put titles onto movie clips, I'd go and do that now.
Otherwise, you're going to be a bit confused as to what I'm doing here.
So I've got a single clip that I've downloaded from Vidis.
It's nothing really exciting, just something that I want to put some titles on.
So first thing I'm going to do, just to zoom in a little bit so that we can see the clips, not a very
long clip.
It's under 30 seconds.
And what we're going to do is just very quickly add a title to this will go to the VFX button, just
drag this bottom window up so that we can see what we're doing.
Now, we do have an audio track and a video track.
And in this case, the audio is really not important.
We're really going to be messing around with the video track.
So I'm just going to disable them for now just so that they don't get in the way.
Zoom again.
What we're going to do is press the button, we're going to go to our DVD and click on text, and then
we're just going to put a title in.
Now, normally what we do is we pick up a title and we put it on our clip.
In this case, you can see that the text is now on the screen.
So let's just do a very quick increase in size like so the font I'm not really worried about in the
color I'm not worried about for now.
What I'm going to do is just call this title one.
So that's going to be our first title.
Now, if we go to our clip right.
Click and click on Unfold, you can see that Light Works makes your titles as long as the clip is.
So it doesn't matter which DVD you put in, whether it's a color or a text or a flip it upside down
effect, it will just make that effect as long as the clip itself.
So what we need to do is, number one, shorten the clip and the easiest way to do that is to disable
the video and remembering.
I've already disabled the audio down there.
We're just going to take our title, let's say a few seconds, and I'm going to press the on my keyboard.
You can see that I've cut the title and I'm going to pick it up and just throw it away.
That.
Now, what will happen if I re-enable the video is that my title is much shorter than my clip, which
is actually what I wanted.
It only lasts a few seconds now, and when those seconds run out, the title disappears.
Now, I'm going to give you a word of warning, because I do this a lot and I can't figure out why it
happens.
What I tend to do is I disable my video and then I move a VFX around.
And the effect of that is the video underneath the VFX will go black.
And it's really frustrating.
So let me just undo that with my keyboard.
And what I'm going to do is show you that when you move a title or a DVD inside a clip, don't disable
it, don't switch it off, instead leave it on.
So when you move your titles or any other DVD around you clips, do it while your video tracks are enabled
when they're switched on.
Otherwise, again, I'll show you if you move it like this, the video goes black underneath and it's
really frustrating and you end up spending half an hour just trying to figure out what happened.
So let's say if we wanted to put another set of titles on the same clip.
So we've got this running like that title one.
It then goes off the screen.
And what if we wanted another title?
Well, the easiest way to do this right now is to press old on a keyboard.
That's the Alti button.
Pick up the first title and just drag it where you want the second title to begin.
And there is so we'll have title one over here.
And then when the second title comes, we'll call that title, too.
And you can see that we now have two titles on the screen.
So if I just play that title, one will come up when it gets to hear, Title one will disappear off
the screen and then Title two will come on.
So that's a really easy way of taking a clip and just throwing titles on.
Not what if you don't want the same title.
So in this case, we just copied and pasted our original title onto here.
So what if, for example, you wanted a different style of text, so maybe you do want to crawl or a
role.
So in this case, what we're going to have to do is slightly different.
I'll pick that off and throw it away.
So what we can do is if you do want a different text or a different style of text, what we're going
to have to do is pick up the titles and again, put it on top of our clip.
Now, in this case, you can see it's just huge.
It takes up the entire length.
That's OK.
That's not an emergency right now.
So let's just assume that out and we'll go back to where we were and simpler.
I'm going to.
Go to the length that I want the title again, disable, switch off the video trick pressie on my keyboard,
throw away what I don't want, switch the video track back on and move it to where I want it.
And again, we now have a title where we want it.
Now, granted, it's not as easy as other programs where you can simply just dragon resize the VFX as
you want to.
But in this case, it's not so bad and it doesn't take too much longer to get used to this way of doing
things.
So here we have Title one and here we have Title two.
And obviously I put the same title on as Title one, but you could have chosen any other title just
to get the effect that you want.
Now, another question I was asked is, how do you adjust the lengths of the text or the DVD that you've
got on your clip once you've got them on?
Because as you can see, I've got my two titles, Title one and title to, but I can't really do anything
to them.
I can move them around, but I can't make them longer or shorter.
Now, in this case, we're just going to treat the titles as if they're normal movie.
So in this case, we're going to have to go back to edit.
And you can see let's just zoom in a little bit and you can see just like any other movie clip or any
other audio track, the VFX now can be treated as if they're normal videos.
And if you've watched other videos, you know that we're going to get into a mess when we start pushing
and pulling, if I can do that.
So, of course, we have to disable everything that we want to not effect.
We go to our titles and we can now lengthen and shorten them as we want to, and of course, if you
now want to move them around, the same rule applies as if you were in the VFX button switch on your
video track.
And move your titles around, otherwise you're going to get that black screen, so that's a really quick
video in how to get multiple titles onto MovieClips, how to move them around, how to shorten them,
how to link them, and basically how to control where your vectors are and how long they are and what
they do.