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Summary: Learn how to add a title to your video with your camcorder, to give it a name, in this free how-to video on using a digital camera on your own.
Ross Safronoff started using a two piece VHS camera system, and then progressed to a 8mm camcorder, then Hi-8, followed by a mini-DV, and finally a Digital8. The Digital8 gave him...read more
" Hello! I’m Ross on behalf of expertvillage.com. Let’s talk about consumer camcorders. If you want to add titles to your video while you’re shooting, you probably have a title button on your camcorder. This one has a button underneath the LCDs screen. So after I push it what you get are the preset titles. A lot of times you can create your own. So I’m going to push in my thumb wheel here and pick one of these titles, push it in again and now you can see in the upper left corner it says title. I press it again now that’s what will happen, it will take that word as a title but I’m going to roll the thumb wheel. Now I can pick color and I can role the thumb wheel and pick different colors and then I can roll it again pick size and roll it again, position. Now just roll the thumb wheel up and down the position and put it at the bottom, push the thumb wheel in and then once I’m happy with it I’ll just go back up to title, push the thumb wheel and there it is that will be overlaid on the video so if I zoom in or out that’s what I get. "
eHow Article: Using your Camcorder to Add Titles to your Video