Now you can enter whatever text you want, click OK, and you can then get in and adjust any of the other parameters in the “Format” section like Font Size, Style, Alignment and Color. Simply hit it, and you’ll get a pop up window to appear that will let you change the text you have on screen. If you take a look at the first parameter, “Text”, you’ll notice a little “A” to the right side of the controls window.
#How to add text to hitfilm express how to#
The main thing you’re going to need to know right off the bat, is how to change the text you have on the screen, because “Text” is probably not what we’re going for. Now that we’ve got our text in our timeline, let’s head back over to the Controls window, where I can show you how you’re going to get in and make adjustments to this text. You’ll now see a pretty small “Text” wordmark in the middle of the frame.
Now, let’s head to the Effects window, type in “Text” as the effect we’re looking for, and apply it to our Composite Shot. Since we don’t need the audio, you can simply right click and select “Unlink”, and delete the audio, and you can then adjust the in/out points to give you a duration of roughly 6 seconds long. Now, as you can see, both video and audio have been added to your timeline. Once you’ve created your Composite shot, and added it to your timeline, it will look a little like what you see below. The reason that I like to go with longer composite shots is that at some point you, or a producer/director will want a title up there a little longer, and it’s easier having it longer originally, that having to make adjustments after the fact. We’re going to make it 30 seconds long (for argument sake), but keep in mind that if you know that you are always going to want your titles to be 6 seconds, by all means, make your Composite shot 6 seconds long. Now, what’s important to keep in mind about this Composite shot is that it’s not going to contain anything. The first thing I will do when I want to start adding titles to my work, is to create a new Composite Shot. The biggest problem with this method, is that you are then limited to having the title be only as long as the clip that it’s attached to, and that is true, that was a big limitation of the old text effect, but that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t a workaround for it, and it’s one that I use all the time, so let’s check it out.
The “old” (but still usable) way that text was added to your timelines was as an effect. In this lesson, I’m going to talk about how you used to work with text in HitFIlm Pro, and why you might still want to work with it the way I’m going to show you, and then in the next lesson, we’ll talk about the new way to work with text, and the immediate differences you’ll notice. I’ll be honest right off the bat when talking about text in HitFilm. In this lesson, I want to start talking about text, as it might seem like a fairly straightforward concept, but it’s not as simple as it seems, and in this first lesson in our look at text creation, I want to talk about a text workaround you’ll want to know, to get text created quickly and easily in HitFilm Pro.
#How to add text to hitfilm express pro#
In our last lesson, in our look at learning HitFilm Pro, we talked about Clip-Based Parameters and keyframing, and how essential they are to your HitFilm Pro workflow.
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