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Onscreen text helps tell your story. Using a location super (superimposed text) sets the scene and saves the narration for other relevant points. Displaying an interviewee's name and title at the bottom of the screen reminds viewers who this person is. Using onscreen bulleted points reinforces your message. Titling is essential to any video production.

The templates that come supplied with Adobe Premiere Pro can save hours of time, if you can find one that is exactly to your liking find one you like, change it, then save it as a template for later use.

Strokes is Adobe's term for inner or outer text or graphic borders. These strokes or borders have the same collection of properties available as are available for text and other Title Designer objects.

After your text has been saved, you can always reedit it. If you create a unique text and graphic style that you think will help viewers recognize your productions or give them some consistency, you can simply
change the wording in saved text files while retaining the style. This comes in very handy if you've created a standard way to superimpose locations or interviewees' names. Or you can save that text format as a style
by selecting the text's bounding box, clicking the Styles wing menu triangle, and selecting New Style. Give your style a name, click OK, and it will appear as a two-letter icon in the Styles thumbnail collection.

Use safe areas! Overscan on television sets covers about 10% of each side of your image. Therefore, when creating graphics for video, check that the text or crucial graphics lay between the Title Safe boundaries. You can toggle Title Safe on an off in the Source and Program windows, pay special attention to 4:3 title safe when creating 16:9 products.