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There’s a collection of titles and generators in the Toolbox that you can use to create leader when outputting to tape, add slates, create subtitles, and otherwise fulfill any textual needs your program has.
To select and audition titles before you place them into the Timeline, ensure that “Hover Scrub Preview” is checked in the Titles option menu, then simply hover your pointer over any thumbnail in the Titles tab. If the title is animated (i.e., Fusion titles), moving the pointer across the thumbnail
will preview the animation. Once you’ve chosen your title, you can drag it from the Titles tab to your Timeline in the Edit page or in the Cut page to either the upper or lower Timelines, or use the editing selection modes at the bottom of the tab.
Scrubbing over a Title Thumbnail previews the title in the Viewer.
Titles and generators can be edited much like any other clip. Furthermore, when selected, both titles and generators expose the same Composite, Transform, and Cropping parameter groups as any other clip; these parameters can be used to composite titles and fly them around in order to create different text effects.
— To drag and drop a generator directly into the Timeline: If you simply drag and drop titles or generators into the Timeline, the default duration of the resulting clip is 5 seconds. This duration can be customized in the Edit panel of the User Preferences.
— To edit a generator using the edit overlays of the Timeline Viewer: Click the destination control of the clip you want to edit a generator into, then set Timeline In and Out points to define the duration of the resulting edit, and drag the generator you want to edit onto the edit overlay of the Timeline Viewer that corresponds to the type of edit you want to perform.
— To reposition the text of a title in the Timeline Viewer: Select the title generator you want to edit in the Timeline, then click the visible text in the Timeline Viewer so that its bounding box is selected; in this state you can reposition, scale, and rotate the text item. As you reposition text, it will snap to key regions of the frame such as the vertical and horizontal center of the Viewer; hold the Option key down to suspend snapping if you want to freely position the text.