Rolling titles are a must for any professional film production. There are a few things that you need to know in Adobe Premiere Pro to make the process of creating rolling titles an easier one.

• Adobe Premiere Pro Insert Title Preset
• Premiere Pro Effects Presets
• Premiere Pro Preset Pack

Titles can be created in a number of ways in Adobe Premiere Pro.

You could, for example, use the keyboard shortcut: CONTROL + T (PC) or COMMAND + T (Mac). You could click the ‘new items’ button at the bottom of the project panel or access the title tool through the menu bar – File > New > Title.*

These options are great for a static title, but what about a rolling one? From the menu bar choose Title > New Title > Default Roll.

The advantage of doing it this way is that it will create a new title with the right options in place for setting up the roll.

*Note: if you want to convert a static title into a rolling one click the Roll/Crawl option box…

…and select the ‘Roll’ option in the dialogue box that appears:

Don’t worry about the other options just yet, we’ll come to them later.

Creating a Text Area in Premiere

Next, we need to create a text area. Rather than just selecting the text tool and starting to type – which will create ‘point text’ (text that continues off the screen and will not wrap around) – you need to create ‘area text‘ and this can be done in one of two ways.

First, you could select the Area Type Tool…

…and then drag out an area from the top left of the inner box (called the title safe area) to the bottom right of the same inner box. Simply click inside this area to add text.

Another option is to drag the Standard Text Tool inside the box in the same way: