Create Eye-Catching Captions in Adobe Premiere Pro

1. Create Eye-Catching Captions: Adding captions to your edit can elevate the viewer's experience and whether the sound is on or off. So if you want to create eye catching captions, all within Adobe Premiere Pro, you've come to the right place. I'm San Diking, filmmaker and video editor. I've been working professionally since 2005. In this short class, I'll guide you through the caption creation process from transcription and captions to style animation, and beyond. This class is designed for beginner and seasoned editors. You'll learn how to create beautiful animated captions that not only will enhance your storytelling, but also captivate your audience. To practice to learn techniques, we will be using this already completed edit that needs some stylish captions. But if you do have your own edit to work on, follow along with that. After completing this class, you'll have a fast, reliable and easily repeatable process to create beautiful animated graphics over and over again. Join me in the next lesson where we will begin with transcribing our class project. 2. Auto transcribe: In this lesson, we're going to kick things off by automatically transcribing our project sequence. This saves us time by not having to do it manually, and it gets us to caption creation quicker. Let's start by opening up Adobe Premiere Pro and creating a new project. Select a new project. And what's awesome about Premiere is that they have included some very helpful project templates we can use that will help with this exact type of project. Click here under the Project Template dropdown menu, then select social media template Project. And also make sure to specify the project location. Then select Create. You're going to notice right away these different sequences designed for specific social media sites. Don't worry about this for now. We're going to visit these in lesson four. Let's first import our media, hit File, Import, or Controller Command eye, and select the single clip in the project folder. If you have your own project video, that's great. You can use that to follow along. Then select open. Once imported, I'm going to quickly create a few folders to organize the project panel a bit better. Then click and drag the project video to this new item icon down here. And once we let go, it creates a new sequence with matching settings. If you're already working with your own project, make sure the sequence you're working with is your final locked edit. If you don't already have the text panel open, click on Window, then text. The text panel has three sub panels, transcript, captions, and graphics. We're going to start with the transcript panel. Within the transcript panel, you have two different options for transcribing your sequence. You can transcribe the source files, which, if you have multiple source clips takes longer, but affords you precise keyword search and dynamic editing. Dynamic editing just means that your transcription will stay in sync with your clips even when you make edits. Then there's creating a static transcript, which focuses only on one sequence rather than transcribing every single source clip within your project panel. Generating a static transcript is faster and more focused. However, it stays the same. If you make edits to your project and take out chunks of it, for example, the transcript does not update as you go. Because we're working with the completed edit, aside from sound effects or music, if you feel like adding that, it will remain unchanged in length. So the static transcript option is a good choice here. Navigate to the ellipsis at the top right portion of the transcript panel. Click on it. Then down a little ways to generate static transcript. Once selected, a new menu pops up. Click on this small blue triangle to open up the options. Our project is in English, but from the menu, depending on your language and accent, make a selection. Yes, this means if you're from the UK, you may want to choose English UK. As it's going to do a better job transcribing your accent. Under audio analysis, choose Audio one, which contains our voiceover. Choosing Mix is fine too, in this case, because we have no other audio going on in this project. But if you had multiple tracks of audio with sound effects and music, you're going to want to analyze only the dialog track to ensure the highest accuracy. Now, select transcribe. And after a few moments, we already have a transcript of our locked edit. So, to recap, use the transcript subpanel to generate a static transcript. Remember, the static transcript doesn't change along with any edits made. We aren't planning on making any adjustments to this locked edit. So this ends up being a great option. On the other hand, transcribing source files creates a dynamic transcript which updates as you make edits on your timeline. Choose your transcript language and audio track for analysis. Finish transcribing your sequence, and in the next lesson, we'll convert this transcript to captions. 3. Creating Captions: In this lesson, we're going to turn this transcript into neatly organized captions. The transcript is quite accurate, but it's not 100% perfect. So at this point, you can make any spelling and punctuation corrections manually. Once the transcript has been corrected, it's time to convert this into captions. Super simple, you can either click on the Ellipsis in the top right of the transcript panel, then create captions or navigate to the captions panel, then select Create captions from transcript. Click on the blue triangle to open up the menu options. Keep the format as subtitle. Don't worry about style for now, but we'll circle back to this in the final lesson of this class. For the maximum length in characters, move this down to around 15 to 20. And I prefer to keep the lines, for the most part, limited to one. So keeping the maximum length in characters lower around 15 to 20, and the lines restricted to one will usually result in having three or fewer words on one line at a time, creating a faster visual pace, making it more engaging, and in some cases, easier to read. And yes, two lines will sometimes be necessary for certain phrases that don't fit on one. Now, this Toggle determines the minimum duration in seconds that each caption will be visible. We want each caption to remain on screen for the entirety of the time that it's being spoken, so keeping the minimum duration at its default will be more than enough. Before we hit Create captions, move back up to the very top of the create captions options window to captions preset. Clicking on the ellipsis, we can now save our current settings as a caption preset. This prompts a new name. I'll use subtitles. Underscore 17 underscore one line 17 for maximum length and characters for my Max length and Character selection. Underscore one line. But feel free to write whatever works for you. You can use a code similar to this one or something more descriptive, but concise so it's easily identifiable. We can also export our current settings as a preset for future use or to hand off to another editor. I would suggest doing this also, this option allows you to easily apply these settings for future projects, whereas the save preset function does not transfer over to new projects. Now it's time to select create captions, and vola, a caption track is created above our video broken up into smaller segments that were determined by our caption settings. It doesn't look like much right now, but this is the start of some striking captions. Catch the. So to recap, Click on the Captions subpanel to create captions. Keeping the maximum length and characters to a minimum and the lines restricted to one will offer flexibility for bigger, bolder, faster paced captions. Remember to export your current settings in the create captions options window to easily import and reuse for future projects. Finish creating your captions, and in the next lesson, the fun begins. We're going to start styling our text. 4. Creating a Text Style: In this lesson, we're going to transform these captions from basic to beautiful. One thing to keep in mind as you design the graphics is to look out for the text being blocked or cropped by different social media sites. This is where our social media template project from Lesson two comes into play. I plan on putting this video on Instagram. So I'll click on the Instagram real aspect ratio 916. That's 1080 by 1920, and I'll just click and drag that to the end so as to not overwrite any of our captions currently in the timeline. And it comes with a few layers that we don't need. So I'm going to delete everything aside from this overlay. Then click and drag it neatly over our video. Already, this overlay is doing its job, and it's showing us that the text is going to be covered up by content at the bottom of the screen. So we're going to need to move the text further up. I also prefer that the text is positioned closer to the center of the screen right beneath the face so you can look at the speaker on the screen while reading the text. Our eyes don't need to travel so far from one part of the screen to another. We're going to finesse the actual position of the text once we move into animation. For now, you know the reason why we want to read position closer to the center. But for technical reasons related to effects and presets, we're going to center all of our graphics. And I'm going to show you why this is important within lesson six. Select all of your captions. Navigate to the essential graphics panel. If that's not already open, that's also under window essential graphics. Then navigate to the position caption block icon and select the zone in the center. We've now applied that position to all of our captions. Onto picking a font. Start with the first graphic. Select the text. Then navigating to our font choices. I'm going to move down to my favorite font and the font that I use for all of my projects, which is futura. I'll just type it in rather than looking for it. And I'll go nice and bold. For your own project, I highly encourage you not to just copy this, but, but apply what you learned to your own text style. Make the text size nice and big, and you can see the text now move to two lines, and that's because our bounding box is not quite that wide. But what we can do is select this, click it wider right up until the crop point. So we can use all of the space we have available, and I'll take the font size down until it's on one line. I also like all caps. So I'll select the all caps option. I like to be yelled at. And again, now it's going to two lines, so we'll just take that down a bit. There we go. I appreciate a simple look and perhaps a drop shadow to increase contrast, scrolling down to our appearance options. I do have shadow selected, and just to see what I'm doing here a bit better, I'm going to zoom in. I actually don't mind just the default settings as is. What's really nice about a drop shadow is an increases contrast. And contrast is helpful to increase text readability, creating a clear separation between the text and the background. There's other ways to increase contrast like using a stroke or creating a background. But what I like about using a drop shadow is it's subtle. We won't draw as much attention away from the visuals while still getting that contrast on our text. I think I'm pretty happy with this. It's a decent font and size, nice style. It's not going to get blocked or cropped. Now, to apply this textile to the rest of our captions, scroll up to track style. Navigate over to the plus button to create a new style. Then from the new textile menu, create a name for your style and make sure these boxes beneath are checked. The first box so we have the style saved in our project. And the second so that we have access to the style within our track style dropdown menu. Once I've created that style, it's applied it to the entire caption track. Once you define a track style, it creates a new preset within the project panel. I have my Shaw caption style right here, and I can click and drag this down into the caption styles folder that already came with this project template. And this is how you two can easily start to create your own caption style library. When you're happy with your text style, right click on it, then select Export textiles and save it to use in future projects. Making changes to this is incredibly simple as well. I've decided, Hey, I think maybe this text is just a bit too close to the edge. I can take this down just a little bit more and not be so aggressive with the text size. And then simply click on Redefined style. Then with this menu pop up, you can select style and project to update the entire style itself or select all captions on track to only change the style for the captions within the timeline. Okay. So recap, use the social media template sequences included within the project to ensure your text won't be blocked or cropped when uploading online. Make sure to also center all of your captions. Once you're finished creating a style for one caption, save the track style, to apply to the rest. Go ahead and finish that now, and in the next lesson, we'll prepare our captions for animation. 5. Preparing Captions for Animation: In this lesson, we're going to convert our captions into graphics, allowing for animation and a motion blur effect for the extra special touch. Selecting the first caption graphic. Well, you can see that we don't really have many options when it comes to animation. If I select the effects controls, there are no effects controls properties available to work with. And that's because captions don't allow for keyframed animations or the ability to add any other type of effect. But there's an easy solution for this. Select all of your captions, navigate up to graphics and titles, then select upgrade caption to graphic. This will bring your captions down to the timeline where they are now fully customizable graphics. We no longer need these subtitle tracks. So I'll right click Delete track, right click Delete track. So for this animation, you can use vector motion or the transform properties within the text options to create keyframes. And that's somewhat easier than what I'm going to show you, but don't worry. It's not that much more challenging, and you'll come out with the knowledge of how to use one of the most useful effects available within Adobe Premiere Pro. This effect allows us to enable motion blur. I prefer motion blur in my animations because it adds a level of realism, matching the blur within the movement on camera. It's a subtle effect, but it can help the text feel more integrated and connected to the live action on screen. Now, on to the effect, move to the effects panel or select window effects to reveal if it's not already available. Under video effects, navigate down to distort, then transform. Select the Transform effect, click and drag it onto the first graphic within your timeline. This is another big reason why we've upgraded our captions to graphics is so that our graphics can accept effects like this. We'll navigate to our effects controls panel to get a closer look at the effect. Transform effect is mostly identical to the motion controls available within the effects controls panel. But the difference here is the motion blur settings available. D select use compositions shutter angle as our sequence and the project don't have motion blur settings available. Unchecking this box will allow us to help input our own shutter angle. If you want the most cinematic looking blur, set the shutter angle to 180. A lower number will give you less motion blur and a higher number will give you more motion blur. I explain this in detail in these classes, if you want to understand more deeply why this is the case. Only takes a few minutes. I highly recommend checking those out if you want to level up your filmmaking and video editing skills. Now, any movement created using this effect will contain blur. So to recap, convert your captions to graphics to allow for animation, and effects like transform to enable motion blur. In the next lesson, we're going to start to add some keyframes. 6. Animating with Keyframes: In this lesson, it's time to make that text move. Give your animation a bit of thought before you just rush in and start slapping on key frames. I have an idea of what I want this to look like, but it's also important to remember the limitations of these captions. Some of these captions appear on screen for less than 1 second. So this animation needs to be quite quick. I'd recommend animating one property at a time. Clicking on the stopwatch for any of these properties will create a keyframe. A key frame, represented by this diamond shaped icon signifies moments where changes occur, such as the start or end of a movement. That means for the position, the text will begin here, and I can then move forward in time. Let's say, one, two, three, four frames sounds okay for now. Click on the Ad slash remove keyframe icon to determine the outpoint of the animation. We don't have enough space here to click on this icon without our properties interrupting. So I'm going to expand this window just a bit. Then select it. Also ensure that you start at the very beginning of your graphic. Clip. I haven't done that here. So I'll click and drag my keyframes back to the very endpoint. When I scrub through, nothing's moving. That's because we've only set the keyframes and we haven't adjusted any of the positions properties. At the end of the movement, I want the text to be in this position, but where do I want the text to begin? I can click on this arrow icon to go to my previous keyframe and then adjust our text position. I'll move it down a little bit. And since we've adjusted the position on where our keyframe is, it will record that position. So now, as I play it back, our text moves from our initial keyframes position to our final keyframes position. Notice the motion blur is kicking in as well, which looks great. Animation is also quite abrupt. It starts at a constant speed, and then it just ends abruptly. That's because we're using linear keyframes. The speed is linear. The text moves at a constant speed with no acceleration or deceleration. But we can change that quite easily. Right click on our n keyframe down to temporal interpolation and then select s in. The key frame changes to the sideways botiide to visually signify this change. Frame by framing through, you can see that the animation itself eases in to its end point. We can also ease out at the beginning of our animation. Right click on the first keyframe, temporal interpolation and ease out. Now our animation is looking smooth. This is a lot less jarring and the movement looks and feels a lot more natural than just using linear keyframes. To recap, a keyframe represented by this diamond shaped icon records moments where changes occur, such as at the beginning or end of a movement, scale, rotation, any one of these properties. To create smoother animations, right click on the keyframe, temporal interpolation, then select ease in or ease out, depending on your keyframes position within the animation. To gain even more control over your keyframes, take a look at my other class on creating smooth edits. In the next lesson, we're going to increase visual interest by adding keyframes to additional properties. 7. Adding Additional Keyframes: Animating your text with multiple properties can increase visual interest. And I was thinking it could be interesting for the text to also pop up a bit. So adjusting the scale could work here. First, I'll set my in and out keyframes to match my position keyframes. Then clicking on the arrow to jump back to our previous position keyframe to match up our timing, I'll add another scale keyframe right here at the beginning of our clip. I'll keep our n keyframe at 100%. But at the beginning, we can start at 0% scale. But look at that. We're getting a bit of strange behavior with this effect. So instead of using 0%, I'll type in one. That's pretty awesome. I'm also going to adjust our linear key frames so that it ease in and ease out. Vv. This looks pretty cool. And remember, you're not limited to this one type of animation, but I would suggest once you find the movement you like, stick with it throughout the entire video unless there are key moments that you want to change up for additional impact. If you start creating different animations for every single caption, you're going to lose that consistency throwing off your viewer, causing confusion for no good reason. Creating a consistent visual style is easier to digest, and it makes it easier to identify your brand from one video to the next. This doesn't mean you can experiment with different ideas or pop in that random animation, but make sure that animation that sticks out from everything else is meant to draw attention to that moment within the story, creating a greater impact. So keep in mind that a consistent visual style can simplify the viewing experience and make it more memorable. Finish up your own unique animation, and then the next lesson, we're going to apply this same animation to the rest of our graphics. 8. Copy/Pasting Animations: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to quickly copy and paste your base animations keyframes onto the rest of your captions. This option also allows you to easily save and reuse these keyframes for future edits. Since the last lesson, I adjusted my transform effect. To make my movement just a slight bit more unique. And once we see how it looks applied to all the graphics, we can then adjust more from there. With the graphic selected, we can then navigate over to the Transform effect, right click on it, then select Save Preset. This will allow us to save the effect and all of its traits, including animation to then be applied later on to any type of video layer within the timeline. If you're using any other motion controls to create this animation, simply right click and save as preset. The preset settings window pops up and we can choose a name for this. Make it concise but descriptive, so it's easily identifiable. Upward pop, I guess, because the animation moves up and pops into frame. Then select Anchor to point. The reason why you want to select anchor to point is because this option ensures that the animation will occur right at the beginning of each graphic. I'll show you what I mean in more detail in a second. If you're working with multiple editors who will want to make use of this preset, it's a good idea to write a short description of what this effect does and what it's meant for and any other important details. I'll select. The preset is saved and will now appear within our presets folder. And this is available within any Premier Pro project, so no need to export unless you need to share with another editor. Any new texts we create and then apply this preset to. We'll contain this transform effect with the exact keyframed animation. I can then select all of the graphics within my timeline to highlight them, click and drag this preset that we've just created onto all of those graphics. And when I play it back, you ever wonder how to create eye catching captions like these ones here? In captions. Every caption has that transform preset applied. This overlay is getting a bit in our way. So I'm going to click this little eye here to toggle track output so we don't see it anymore. Choosing anchor to point sets the keyframes and their exact timing to the point of each caption. This means that no matter how long each caption is, it will have consistent identical animation and timing. I've removed all the animation. And now I'm going to reapply this preset with anchor to outpoint. You ever wonder how to create catching captions like these ones here? You might not notice the difference, but if we take a closer look at any one of these captions, you'll see that now the keyframes are in the middle of this graphic. We didn't design this animation to end at the outpoint. So it kind of falls in the middle of our caption. But if you did want to have your text animate out as well, you're going to want to create an entirely separate preset for this designed for the outpoint. Then when saving it, set the type to anchor point out. You can then apply both your in and out animation presets separately to all of your graphics. If you ever want to delete any preset to all of your graphics, simply select them all, right click, select remove attributes. Then you can select the attributes you want to remove, transform effect. Okay. That takes care of the transform effect, and you can reapply with new settings. Selecting scale takes the animation in its timing and attempts to adjust it depending on the length of each caption. Shorter captions, the animation preset would adjust to the length appearing faster, and for longer captions, the animation preset would attempt to adjust the timing and take longer. This creates an inconsistent look, and I wouldn't necessarily recommend this. Stick to anchor to point so you get that consistent animation that you intended from the first place. Finish creating your preset, then click and drag it to the rest of your graphics to apply. To recap to create a preset, right click on the effect or parameters you wish to save. Choose preset type anchor in to set the animation, and it's timing to appear at the point of whatever layer it's applied to. Would you have some sort of movement out of a graphic, choose anchor to outpoint to set the animation, and it's timing to appear at the outpoint of whatever layer it's applied to. In the next lesson, I'll show you a quick way to adjust the position of multiple graphics. 9. Repositioning Multiple Graphics with Ease: We need to take care of some other position challenges that we've run into. The frame zooms into my face for a tighter shot, but now our graphics are not in an ideal position. Instead of changing the transform effect key frames to make adjustments, I would recommend using the motion tab within the effects controls panel instead. This is an entirely different set of motion properties that apply to the video frame itself and don't interfere with the text properties or the animation, which makes it a quick and easy option to reposition text. All I need to do is move the text position down on the y axis and no longer in the way. We're going to want to apply the same position to the rest of the graphics that are interfering with the visuals. It looks like these clips are also in the way which we're going to have to adjust. To batch copy paste the correct position to these other graphics, simply right click on the corrected clip, copy or command or Control C, then select the clips you want to apply to, right click Paste Attributes. Ensure that only motion is selected under the video attributes options. Select. Now that position has been applied to all of these selected graphics. Okay. There are more graphics that need adjusting. So go ahead and apply what you've learned to the rest of your edit. In the next lesson, we're going to emphasize those story moments by adding some flare. 10. Enhancing Text Style to Emphasize Story: As I mentioned before, it's a good idea to find those moments within your edit that you want to pop to stand out and to draw attention to specific points within the story. I would love to enhance the words that appear at the end of this first segment. I must out to create eye catching captions like these ones here. The words like these ones here. At this point, I'm trying to show the power of captions, and I want this text to stand out to reinforce the point I'm making. Now, the options to do this are endless. You can change the color, adjust the font size, change the font, change the font weight or adjust the animation. And in this case, I have an idea to have two lines meeting in the middle. I'll change the color and then have a subtle glow to them. One thing that I'm dealing with here is that the grouping of these words isn't quite working. Like these ones here, like these ones here. I'm speaking all of these words in one clump, but they don't appear in one clump, as I say them. We have the word here with a question mark at the end on its own, and it's not in sync with everything else. This is one of those cases I've mentioned where two lines are going to be better than one. You're also going to want to go through the rest of your edit to find places where you may have a phrase or string of words that look better when clumped together to sync with the pacing of the voice. For now, I'll stick to this string of words. Typing in here at the end of this caption. And I'll bring this piece of text down. Oops, there. Now I can delete this extra here at the end and extend that caption to meet the next. It can be a bit tricky to work with the transform effect and edit text. So quick tip here. Navigate to the text panel, then to the graphics sub panel. Double clicking on each piece of text, will allow you to edit to your liking. The Animation is also going to be different than our current animations, I'll toggle the animation off for all of our animated properties to reset the transform effect. Now, I'll duplicate this layer, holding Option or Alt and clicking and dragging up to the next video layer. Then type in what I want the text to say for each layer. The layer on track two will say like these, and the layer on track one will say ones here. Next, working on where I want the final position of each piece of text. You can eyeball is just fine, but if you really want to be precise, copy and paste the text layer one more time, and I'll use the bottom most layer as a map for our text. I'll show you what I mean. And to avoid moving our text map, I'm going toggle the track lock for that layer. Click on our uppermost layer first. Then select our text. And because I want the top layer to say like these, I'll delete this portion. Text shifts down, and that's okay. We're going to move it in a minute. And because the text layer above this one will interfere, I'll move the playhead here. Click and drag the text. Just not getting in our way when we're editing this text. Select the text delete the top line 'cause the bottom layer is going to say ones here, question mark. And again, that moves to the center. That's fine. And now we have this bottom locked layer as our text map, and we can move this text on top of our text map. I'll also zoom in just a bit more. So we have a bit more precision. With that text layer selected, I'm going to navigate down to text and change the color to something that contrasts the blue. More orange. How about something like orange, yellow here. Great. I like that. Now, I'll navigate up to our transform options underneath text and move the position downward. And look at that. That's pretty good. Now I'll move on to the other piece of text. I'll move this text layer out of the way and move this one back in navigating back to our text tab. But actually, I'm going to move the playhead back here so I can use the eyedropper to select the same color of this text to match. Move the playhead back, and it's not going to get in the way. Now it's time to move this text into place. If you want even more precision on these text movements, you can hold control and click. And then you're going to see we're going to get to the nearest decimal point instead of whole numbers. Move that into place. Nice. Looks good. Now move this second trim point back into position. And the text map has done its job. Our text is well positioned, and we no longer need this text map, I'll toggle track lock off. Delete the text map and move these graphics down one layer. Sync the captions on the screen. It's easier to read and it makes sense, just like that. It's as easy as that. Use the graphics subpanel within the text panel if you're having trouble editing text. If you want pinpoint precision when needing to animate multiple words within one piece of text, you can try using this word map technique. In the next lesson, we're going to emphasize those story moments by adding some flare. 11. Make Your Animations POP!: Onto the animation. Both these text lines are going to meet in the middle here. So this is a good end point. On line one, I'll add a key frame of about six frames in using our transform effect. I also want to see a bit more of the frame that I'm working with. So I'll scale out to 50%. And let's go back to this effect to the beginning. One, two, three, four, five, six frames, set a key frame for position, back to the beginning, set another keyframe. That's in the way. Let's move it out. Our point, and now it's just about how far I want this text to move into position. We'll try 700 for now. We can also do the same for the second piece of text. But first, I'm going to find out the difference 700-839. Well, that's 139 pixels. Back to our second layer. I'll navigate back to our transform effect. Set a key frame because that's six frames in But set another keyframe at the end point. And now because we're moving down on the y axis, instead of clicking and dragging it and eyeballing it, we can use the pixel number difference from our first layer. We're moving further down the y axis, so we can add the difference in pixels. 839 plus 139 is 978. I'm super good at math, so that's how I know that so easily. I have a calculator. That's great. Now, this text comes together as the camera zooms in. That's kind of cool. And we got motion blur. But the key frames are kind of awful because they're linear. I'll right click temporal interpolation. Ease out, and then ease in on our second keyframe. I'll do the same for this text layer up here. And it's a lot faster to use shortcuts. Because this class is for all levels, I'm clicking everything. And if you're still clicking, that's fine. But I would encourage you to use shortcuts and to save yourself some time. Ease. I didn't hit ease in on this one, did I? There we go. There. Now they meet right in the middle with the same kind of motion. I think what I also want to do is add an opacity change, so then I'll just abruptly come in. Take the opacity. About three frames. Try that. That works. Let's do the same here. Great, less. For the glow, I like to use gauze and blur because the other glow effects available within Adobe Premier Pro, don't quite give me the look I'm going for. That means I'm going to have to duplicate these layers one more time. So I'll move this one up, then duplicate it, and then duplicate this one. The layer beneath each visible layer is going to have the Gagen blur attached to it. So I'll navigate two effects. Type in Ga and we have Gagen Blur, and I'll click and drag it down to this layer here. Set the blurriness to about 35. That looks okay. And I also want to make sure that our shadow is deselected for this blur layer, so it doesn't interfere. And now on to animating the blurriness. I want it to glow as it moves in. So I'll start here. You add another key frame around here. This will be the peak glow and it'll stay at the peak glow for about five frames, and then it will dim back down. Okay. And I also think that I don't want to be at zero blurriness. Perhaps something like ten could be good. And then ten at the end. Like this one. And again, using our eases to ease out, ease in, ease out, and then ease in. Let's take a look at this. Like these ones here. Not bad. I think the glow can be a bit shorter. It's like these ones here. The change kind of catches my attention a bit more. It's like these ones here. All right. Now that I have this gauge and blur the way. I like it on this layer, I can simply select it, control command, then select the next layer. And hit Control Command V. And they both have the same effect. It's like these ones here. Assume all the way out. Certainly a lot better than just using the same animation that we've used for everything else. So to recap, find those story moments within your own edit, like this part here. Whether the sound is on or off. Oh, and you can use these icons as well. Get creative, experiment, have fun and finish up your edit. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how easy it is to apply all the presets we've created to a new project. Okay. 12. Applying Presets to a New Project: At this point, you have all the tools available to create beautiful graphics with e y catching animation, but it's time to take it to the next level of speed and efficiency and apply all these presets we've created to a new project. I'll open an entirely new project. Name it whatever, because I'm not going to use this. This is just for demonstration purposes. I'll select social media template project. So I have those social media overlay guides if I need them and create project. Import my media, Control Command. Click and drag the clip to the new item icon. Select the text panel, transcript, select the ellipsis at the top right of the subpanel. Generate static transcript. Ensure I have the right settings. Audio analysis mix is fine because there's only one track, and that's my voice. Transcribe. We'll navigate to the transcript subpanel again. Click the ellipsis, create captions. From here, I can now import the previously saved caption subtitle preset. And here's the premier pro preset we've created, open that, and it loads all of our previously saved settings. I would highly recommend importing your track style here as well to get your captions styled as they are created. But if you forget, that's fine because you can always do this later. Create captions. Now, this is probably the most time consuming part, which is manually correct in the text and making sure that the text matches up the timing or the pacing of my speech onto the styling. Since we did not import our text style within the create captions menu, we're going to import them now. I'll select all of my captions. Navigate to essential graphics, edit. Then I'll load up my track style using the plus button here. Import style. Navigate to that style. And here we go. My caption style preset open, and I'll select. Then under the track style, it'll appear Shawn Caption style, select, and we have all of our captions neatly centered styled the way we want them. Now, navigating to graphics and titles, upgrade caption to graphics, and we do this, so we can apply our animation, transform effect preset. I'll select all of the graphics, navigating to effects. Within this presets folder here, we have our previously saved transform preset upward pop, and I'll click and drag that onto all of the captions. And just like that, we have animation applied. And we have these positional issues, simply select the graphic effects controls, navigate down to your motion controls under the video tab and moving the text down into a position that is just below the face. Once I have this, I can control command C to copy and then find the other text that needs to be corrected. Select all, right click, then paste attributes. And because we use our motion video attributes, we'll select that and only that, and it will quickly apply the position from our copied graphic file. And now we have our base animation, which for some of your videos or your client's videos is going to work just fine. But if you want to go above and beyond, add those little details to grab your audience's attention. So to recap. The trick here is to work from these presets that you've already created so you can spend more time on those little embellishments to make your captions pop. That's going to help amplify audience engagement with your content. So if you haven't already, make sure you add those final touches to your captions, and at the end of the next lesson, I have a little surprise for you. I'll see you there. 13. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on completing the class. I can't wait to see your eye catching captions. When you're ready, please post your project so I can provide feedback. Please, if you would be so kind to also leave a class review, these reviews are very helpful in improving my work and in turn serving you better. I greatly appreciate your time and support. Please also follow my profile for announcements, new class releases, and occasional giveaways. If you want to learn more about filmmaking and video editing, take a look at the other classes on my Skillshare page, my YouTube channel, and Instagram. And don't worry. I didn't forget about the surprise. Use this link to access a small library of animated graphic presets that you are free to use for any project. Simply right click on the presets folder within the Effects tab, then select Import. Once imported, you will have access to a small library of text animations that can be applied at the point and outpoint. These are specifically designed for vertical video, but they could easily be adapted for a wider form. Remember, this is the transform effect, so it can be applied to more than just graphics. Adjust the keyframes as necessary to suit your project, test them out, experiment, and have fun. Thank you so much for taking the class and remember. Story is your guide. I'll see you next time.