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In our last video, we made a really good looking video with some audio.

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We put some fade in and fade out and created, in my opinion, a really good looking film.

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What we're going to do today is look at titles and other special effects.

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And to do that, we need to click on the VFX button.

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Normally when you click on the VFX button, you get the color panel, which is what Lightworkers is

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famous for.

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We're not going to use that today.

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What we're going to do is click over here and in the category we are going to go to text.

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And what we're going to do is let me rewind that film right back to the beginning.

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What I want to do is just put the title something like Earth on the middle of that film there.

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So what I'm going to do is choose quite a nice looking takes, which is going to be something like this.

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Now, if you want to just very quickly see what that text will look like, just double click it and

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you'll see it there.

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You notice that it's actually put the effect on your movie clip.

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So I'm just going to undo that.

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We go back there.

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Let's have a look at something like this.

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Yeah, that's more like it.

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I just want to put some text in the middle of there.

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So what I'm going to do is now edit that text.

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And what I've got here is where it says personal place.

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I would just like to write the word earth and delete the thing underneath which I don't need.

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That's just collapse that in.

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We seem to have something called a gradient.

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Phil, let's have a look.

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Now, we're not really going to mess around with that.

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That looks quite nice, but we're not going to mess around with that.

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What we'll do is we'll go up to the color correction, take that away so that we can just see what we're

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doing it.

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There you go.

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So what we've got is the earth.

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Let's just make the size of that bigger.

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That's quite nice.

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I don't really like Ariel as a font for this.

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So let's just go through my font and find something that might be a little bit more suitable.

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That's actually quite nice there.

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Do we want to make it italic now?

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Do we want it to be like so there you go.

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And that's basically the title that we're going to have.

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Let's have a look.

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And there we are.

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Now, it last for the whole clip, so how do we take it so that it doesn't last the whole clip?

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What we are going to do is go to our edit button and you can see that we have still those text effects

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there.

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We're going to right click.

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We're going to unfold where it says effects, we're going to unfold.

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What that does is it brings up all of the text for the length that it's therefore now following the

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rules that we've discussed before, all I have to do is disable my video and my video, basically.

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Move that takes to about half of the movie and it will go something like that and then disappear.

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Now let's go a little bit further.

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Let's go back to our VFX.

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Let's make that a little bit nicer.

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So what we're going to do is within that heading, we're going to go to the effects button there.

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And let's choose a fade in.

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I'm going to make the fade quite long.

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I'm going to make it around two seconds and faster fade out of about one second.

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So let's see how that works.

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She looks quite good and it will kind of disappear as well.

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Let's go back to our edit button and see what that actually looks like.

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So if you now play this.

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So you have the fadin of the titles background picture coming in and the fade out of the title as well.

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It's really quite nice.

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Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted.

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Now, what happens if you want a title on a black screen in the middle or somewhere else in the video?

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Now, this is one of the weaknesses of Lightworkers.

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Most video editing software lets you move clips around wherever you want them and even insert black

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screens.

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And Lightworkers doesn't do that, but we can cheat a little bit.

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So what I'm going to do is just momentarily remove the sequence like so and go back to our VFX and yet

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we can double check.

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We don't have any titles anymore.

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So what I want to do is put the title Earth on the screen, but on a black screen before anything starts.

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So how do we do this?

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So what we need is a smallish clip that's just double click that.

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Yeah, let's just do a quick in and out.

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Doesn't have to be so long, so I just have to put that there.

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What I have to do is make sure that my play had my red line is all the way at the start.

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And then what I'm going to do is rather than replace, I'm going to insert a clip.

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And what that's going to do is push everything out a little bit, including, you know, the audio that's

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there.

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Now, what you can see is that this small clip has pushed everything of my movie to the right.

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That's exactly what I wanted, because now what I'm going to do is just pick that up and throw it away,

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leave me with a blank space just there and the audio I'm going to leave blank as well.

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Let's just close down this clip.

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Go back to our VFX.

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You can see that I've got a blank space.

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I'm just going to add exactly the same.

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To there now, and you can see that it's already unfolded, that's fine, because I actually want to

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see what's going on and again, I'm just going to replace delete.

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I won't bother with the font right now.

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And we can also put in our effects are fading in and fading out and what this movie will now look like.

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Is this.

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So that's a different way to approach a title on a black space.

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You can also, for example, if that was the style of your movie, do the same thing in between.

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But now beware, because you're going to be editing the audio as well as the video.

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So let's say we wanted to do a similar title in the middle.

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So what we can do is move the play head to, let's say, there.

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So the start of the Dragonfly, again, I'm just going to take a small clip, double click it and I'm

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going to do an insert.

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And you can see that it cuts right through the audio.

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This is not what we want.

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Let's undo that, disable the audio and insert just the video.

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You can see that the video is pushed forward.

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What I'm going to do now is pick up that clip and move it away.

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So I've been left with a blank space over here is exactly what I want.

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Go back to the VFX.

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What I'm going to do is just pick up.

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Some text and I'm going to put it in that black space I just created again.

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Edit what you need to do, whatever you have to put in the effects of Faid now, what will happen is

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this you will see.

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That as the movie goes on, let me just switch on the audio so you know, that it didn't get ruined.

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So what will happen now is the movie will play and where you want a black space to occur, you get a

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black space.

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Now, of course, the same rules apply here.

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So any time you put in a text overlay on top of a clip, it will simply create that.

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We can then unfold.

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Disable.

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And we can go back to our edit button and we can now control the length.

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Of our text overlay, so it's a little bit complicated and I know other programs do it better, but

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once you're used to the Lightworkers Way only takes a few seconds more.