You have a bunch of options to change the colour of the fill, add a stroke, a shadow, a background box, mask with text, etc.

Under Styles, you have Text, where you can choose fonts and modify their styles however you like by adjusting the tracking, lettering, line spacing, etc. This will enable you to recall it at any time you like. If you create some text that you want to reuse, you can create a master text style and then name it. Start with Align and Transform to align, anchor, scale, rotate, adjust opacity, etc.īelow these controls are Styles. In the Edit tab in the Essential Graphics panel, there are a ton of options for modifying this text. Hit Escape, and then press V, and you can switch back to the Selection Tool, and then you can grab your text and position it where you want and scale it up and down however you want.Īs you move your text around, if you want to activate the 'snap to' feature, you can hold Down and Control to temporarily enable snapping, which is perhaps a little better than having snapping on all the time. To create a simple title, grab the Type Tool (T), click on the video in the program window, and type your text. Some of these you can create yourself in Premiere, and some you can buy from resources like Envato Elements. The Browse tab is where you can store and search all of the templates that you want to use for titles and other kinds of graphic treatments that you might have. The Essential Graphics panel has two tabs: Browse and Edit.

The Essential Graphics panel can be found by going to Window in the menu and choosing Essential Graphics. One of the cool things about the Essential Graphics panel, however, is that it does have a link with After Effects you can build some really complex-looking graphics, lower thirds, and titles in After Effects and make templates of them so that they work with the Essential Graphics panel.

The Essential Graphics panel was added to Premiere a few years ago, and it enables you to do a lot of things from very simple titling in text and graphic elements to things that are really pretty complex, without ever having to go to After Effects.

Essential graphics panel