Okay.
So time waits for no man.
And and we push.
We will be looking at other ways to to play around with the color and all of that, as we did in the
previous section.
But right now we're going to look at graphics and essentially the essential graphics panel or tab.
It's actually a panel, the thanks shield, an essential graphics panel.
And that's what this is.
Yours look a little bit different because I've downloaded a few may come up with with here and good
this is what we're starting with if you don't have this go to window and make sure that you check on
essential graphics that come somewhere around here.
So what is the Essential Graphics panel?
Well, it it's something that's been updated in recent years.
And it used to be just the text element within Premiere Pro.
But as you can see, if I scroll down here, some of these you will have some of some of them you won't
but and some of these are actually things that I've made up.
But what they are essentially so for the puns are they're animated kind of how do we say this?
What the term I'm trying to avoid is.
MCGIRT Which I kind of shouldn't read do because that's what these are Emoji T, which stands for Motion
Graphics Template.
And that's what these are.
And we will be looking at these in depth in a little while.
However, what I want to do is I want to get to edit and what I can't do is I can't get to edit without
creating something first or dragging something in, and I'm not going to drag anything in yet.
So how do we get around this?
What we're going to do is we're going to put some text on screen.
So I'm actually going to use these clips or this clip that we're up to so far.
And I'm going to you're going to know what I'm going to do right now.
I'm actually getting rid of all the limit three on there that we've played around with.
I'm going to just add my corrective lit contrast, maybe a little bit.
The shadows could happen with that.
See how quick that was when you when you get used to it.
And I drag this out a little bit because I want a bit of time to play, but so what we're going to do
is we're going to put some text on screen and and simply going to write pizza.
How do we do that?
Well, the shortcut is to see how that changed.
If I press V, that goes back to my selection tool.
That's going to Adam editing.
That's better.
Thank you very much.
And what I just did then was I switch between the selection tool, which is the arrow and the text tool,
which is this and as you may have seen here, that switched between the two.
Another shortcut rather than coming up here and clicking that and then going there, we can just literally
hit T and we ready to text now to get text on the on the screen.
You can either check a box and say that's what I want to be typing in or you can you just click and
start typing either way, as you may have seen here, let me just press escape and control and set the
minute that you click in here with the type tool or the text tool is the text or type.
It's the type tool.
Well, remember, it will create a graphic on the next free track on video.
So let's bring it to where we want it to.
Come on.
Maybe they'd say here and I want to write here and I want to type pizza.
So and I've clicked in here and I'm just going to hold down shift press p that I said said Hey, I know
I can spell I know you're impressed and if I press v now, this is the only time where this may trip
you up.
I press v now I'm not going to go back to the selection tool.
I'm going to type V in here, obviously.
So to commit this, your text in there, this is very this is the same kind of shock that you have in
the likes of Illustrator and Photoshop, but escape will literally commit that.
And now, although you can't necessarily see that anything's change if I press V, it actually selects
all of the parameter of here.
But in doing it, it's gone back to the selection tool because what it's done is it's rather than being
an a type tool, it's going to selection tool.
So what can we do with this?
Well, let's not have this selected right now because let's not overcomplicate anything.
But did you notice something there?
You see that?
That the anchor point is down at the bottom.
Where we've seen anchor points before.
We have seen them.
Here.
There's an anchor point.
Hmm.
What does that mean?
Well, it's quite simple with text.
Your anchor point will automatically be placed bottom left of the text.
So that means if you're dragging out high, it comes up from the bottom left.
That can always be changed.
But by default, that's where Premiere Pro does it.
Now, that is one way to change the size of your your font.
But what I want to draw your attention to very quickly is just down here, because that is your font
size.
That has the same effect.
But what we're doing here is we're actually scaling up the font rather than scaling up the graphic.
The reason why that's important is because quite often you can get anti-aliasing and whether you know
what Anti-Aliasing is or not, you will have seen it.
Let me just bring this right up.
Let me see if we get any.
We won't get any now.
You just you just mark my words.
We will not get any.
No, of course we won't.
Anti-Aliasing is something that you get with with vectors.
Pay no attention to how I got this up here, Will.
Well, we'll show you shortly, but.
And I'm setting out the.
The best, best practice, so you don't ever really have to deal with it.
And Anti-Aliasing is something that you get with vectors and a text graphic is a vector.
It's just a collection of shapes.
And what you can get is, rather than a nice smooth curve around here, you can get stepping down like
straight lines all the way down.
And it looks awful.
And it's not round and it's not smooth and it's not sharp.
That's why we can get with anti-aliasing and quite often that is when you scale up a an already.
I don't want to throw terms at you, but an already raster ized vector, so an already committed and
finalized shape.
And when you then scale it up, it's almost like when you when you zoom in to a picture that's not great
quality, you're then going to start getting artifacts and noise and pixelation.
So best practice is if you want to scale up your text, you use this bad boy here either using the scale
or, you know, by now, double click to take it.
Double click.
Double click does not work in font on the font slider.
It doesn't work.
Oh mark that down.
Didn't know that.
See always learning but it defaults at 100 not ten Adam at 100.
And you can scale up or down from here and you can also type in that say 200 boom.
It's twice the size.
Good.
What do we want to do with this?
Well, first and foremost, let's get it.
Let's get it.
The font and the size that we kind of want, because different fonts are different sizes by default
and there's no point placing it where we want to place it and then losing, having to move it again
once we then change the font.
So I will go to one of my default fonts which is no esta.
I like no I a nice font and we're going to scale this up ever so slightly.
Pizza.
Good.
And then we're going to bring this down here.
Okay, that looks nice.
Let's play that back and see how it looks.
Good.
Now, what you're probably already noticing is the fact that because this is created as a clip, effectively,
it's a graphics clip.
This very much like an adjustment layer or an image can be as long or short as you want it to be.
So with that in mind, when you click when you click off a graphic, by the way, when you come back
to it, you don't have all the information that you had before or in the edit tab.
And we need to click what we actually want to change and then we get everything else good.
So what we then want to do with that, I'm actually quite happy with that placing right there.
However, if you wanted to place it along the bottom or in the middle or at the top or center center,
all these things here will help you with that.
This.
At this medal and center.
Well, it's very similar to this and this.
However, those will affect once you have more than one graphic, you can align them all to the center
or distribute them all.
If you've got more than one, it will give you the option to distribute.
But we're not touching that right now.
So we're here.
Now, what else do I want to do with this?
Well, I'd like to stretch it out slightly.
So I'd like to take out the kerning ever so slightly.
That looks good.
Looks quite Italian, doesn't it?
And what else do we want to do?
Well, we can do loads of stuff.
We can actually bring it up or down within itself.
And that is dependent on if you have different lines and you want to really space them out or you've
got text on different lines within the same graphic.
But just for here, right now, I'm quite happy with all of this.
You can really play around with all these, by the way.
Obviously, you'll be familiar with Left, Justified, Centre and Right and this.
If you ever worked with Excel, you'll be aware of these which are just fly to the top.
Just face the centre and justify a line to the bottom.
So what else can we do with this?
Well, we have a fill, which is white.
But what should we change it to?
I actually quite like the white colour, but just to use a different colour.
We've got two ways.
Three ways to change the colour so we can click into what the fillies and we can select our colour just
like we did with the colour mattes.
So we wanted it to be grey.
Fine.
We've got it updating as we go.
So we want it to be red.
We could come down to here and there is red.
So that's one way to select the colour.
Another way to select a colour would be to if you're working for a brand and they have specific colours,
they could give you a hex coat and it could be 60, 60, 60, which is a grey.
However, 60, 60 is a really I love this colour.
It's one of my favourites.
It's almost, it's almost like a teal.
So we're going to go with that 60, 60.
I love that.
And it always shows you what the colour was and what colour you're selecting.
Good.
So that's done.
What else can we do?
Well, as you can see, Phil is ticked, but nothing else is.
So we can add a stroke.
Hmm.
Before we do that, by the way.
So I did say there was three different ways to choose a color.
You can also use yep.
The color picker.
And we could go around here and we could pick a color that's within our.
Project in the clip.
Oh, we go for that one.
Good.
So that's another way to be able to color pic.
I'm not.
I'm using that because I really like that.
So let's add a stroke.
So that adds a white stroke all the way around.
It looks quite nice, doesn't it.
We can adjust the thickness of the stroke or the.
Yeah.
In pixels.
So that's ten pixels of a stroke.
We can also add another stroke and we could say we wanted this to be red because we've got the that
the different colours of, say, the Italian flag.
We could then stretch that out even further.
Give me that and see.
All of a sudden we've got one fill and then two strokes.
What else could we do?
Well, we could add a background.
Boom.
Done.
Where did I add that background to it?
Added it right behind the text.
However, it's right up against it.
Remember clicking in there?
We need to click into edit as well.
So what can we do with this background?
Well, first and foremost, it's set at 75%.
We could change that to 100%.
So it's a full block color.
We could scale it out a bit.
So it covers the whole of the actual word and gives us a bit of room.
We could also change that color so the background could change to say, white almost looks like a pizza
box now, doesn't it?
And now that we're doing this, you can see is it sitting correctly within itself?
Well, this is where this alignment would change that.
No, it was it was sitting absolutely, perfectly so happy that you're moving up.
Okay.
So we've got absolute straight corners.
We could round the corners a little, make it a little bit more, I don't know, a little bit softer,
a bit more fun.
And finally, still within just this graphics panel, essential graphics panel, in a text, we could
add a shadow.
So the shadows added to the text.
Let me just take that off and back.
There we go.
Maybe take up the opacity or take down the opacity, as it were, like bring it more in view and then
we can blow it more.
We can move it around.
So move it around first.
That's the distance.
And then we can blur it a bit and then we can add that blur.
There's so many options.
I mean, look, I know I may sound a little bit sad here, but the text panel used to be absolutely
awful in Premiere Pro.
But as you can see, just with a few clicks, you can mix it and it looks really quite smart.
So with that all set, just I'm going to have a little look back.
And what do I want to change?
Well, very little, other than you see how the red stroke is so thick that we don't really have the
hole in the P and the A.
So I'm going to bring that stroke back a little bit.
Just.
There we go.
Not too much, but just.
Yeah, that that that looks good for me.
Now, if I click out, I just want to show you this roll.
Please don't ever use this.
You can, but please only use it.
Well, no, I don't want you to use it, but I'm going to show it you anyway.
You see how that moves?
Because it's like this.
It looks awful.
The only time you would ever use this would be, say, if you're doing credits.
But I will show you soon.
There's a much better motion graphics template to be able to do credits, which is free within Adobe
Stock, and it's much better than that awful effort.
So with that in mind, we have pizza right there and.
Right.
That's it.
So what else can we do with that?
Well, we can make it longer, just like this.
And this beats.
I like that.
Good colors.
And of course, we can fade in and out.
So we hold down shift to our crosshair.
This is a real shock.
I love this.
And let go.
And they hold down shift.
And because we've held down control, we only highlighted the ends of the clips and we shift.
We've added our default transition and now beats.
If you haven't got hungry so far in this whole course, then I'd be very surprised.
Just for the record, that pizza was absolutely stunning.
So those are all our things that we would like to do or at least want to do with our essential graphics
by adding text.
There are so many different things, as you can imagine, that you can do with this just purely because
of how it's all set up.
But remember, this is effectively a clip.
So you know how we had role going up there?
Well, let's size this down a little bit and let me just show you what we can do with just a little
bit of thought as to what we've done before.
Is that picture interest?
Yeah.
Well, let's see.