How to Create Growing Text in Adobe Premiere Pro

There are a lot of things that you can do in Adobe Premiere Pro and creating a lot text effects is one of them. You must first start with the basics though and growing text is a basic tool you can use in many projects.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Open up Adobe Premiere Pro and begin a new project. Keep the default settings and name the project something like “Title” or “Growing Text."

2. 

   To begin, you will first need to create a new text file. To do this, click on the icon with the little picture of the peeling back paper in the project window. Click the option “Title…"

3. 

   The Adobe Title Designer will automatically pop up. Begin typing your text and you can type anything you want like “Growing Text” for example. Choose a font and any colors if you want except for black.

4. Escape the Title designed by pressing the X-icon in the upper right hand corner. A prompt will come up asking you to save your title. Save the title giving it a name you will remember.

5. 

   Once the text is saved it will now appear as a source file in your project window. Click and drag the text down to the video 2 layer in the timeline window.

6. Click the new item button again in the project window and select “Black Video…”. This will add a new video clip in your project bar that is simply a black video.

7. Drag the black video icon down into the Video 1 section of your timeline.

8. Now you will want to expand your files to around fifteen seconds in length. Right-click on one of the files and click “Speed/Duration." Change the duration to 15:00 and click "Ok." Do the same for the other clip.

9. 

   Highlight the text file in the timeline and then click the effect controls tab in the monitor window.

10. 

    Click the arrow under “Motion” and then the arrow under “Scale."

11. You should now see a scale that starts at 0 and goes to 100. Drag the arrow back and forth on the scale to see your title grow and shrink. Set the arrow around the 20 mark.

12. 

    Click on the mini-clock picture next to the word “Scale." This will turn on key frames. Now your clip will start the title at 20% scale.

13. 

    Drag the arrow on the timeline all the way to the fifteen-second mark.

14. Now drag the scale arrow to 100%.

15. Click on the timeline window and press “Enter” to preview your growing text. For the fifteen seconds your text should slowing be growing until it’s original size is achieved.

16. Play around with settings to achieve different speeds of growth and pretty soon you will be able to master the process and create professional looking titles.