ABSTRACT
Video editing applications come with a variety of titlers. Premiere Pro (for Windows) ships with the best titling tool ever to be included with the program. Final
Cut Pro (for the Mac) boasts a full-featured Live Type tool that includes some very
nice presets. Boris, Pinnacle, and a handful of other companies develop third-party
plug-ins that greatly improve the more bland variety of titlers, such as Avid’s limited
text tool which is included in many versions of their application. While all of the
various developers of video titlers have their own strengths, the vast majority of
the titling you’re likely to create will be better served by Photoshop than any other
application. This chapter will illustrate just how fast and powerful Photoshop’s Text
Tool is, and how to get the most out of it.
