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Custom Action and Title Safe Areas
The Editing panel of the User Preferences has a new “Use custom safe area overlays” checkbox that, when turned on, displays Action Area and Title Area fields that let you set a custom percentage for each. The default values are 93% for Action Area and 90% for Title Area.
Types of Title Generators
When opened into the Inspector, titles expose a set of text parameters that allow you to style the contents of that clip’s Text field within the Inspector. Each of the titles supports rich text, so you can individually style words, lines, or paragraphs of text using the available parameters including Color, Font, and Size. Other attributes such as Alignment, Anchor, Position, and Shadow affect the entire title.
The following titles are available:
— L Lower 3rd: (supports rich text) Automatically positions two lines of text at the bottom left corner of title safe, each with a different set of rich text and Position/Zoom/Rotation controls for independent sizing and animating.
— M Lower 3rd: (supports rich text) Automatically positions two lines of text at the bottom middle of title safe, each with a different set of rich text and Position/Zoom/Rotation controls for independent sizing and animating.
— R Lower 3rd: (supports rich text) Automatically positions two lines of text at the bottom right corner of title safe, each with a different set of rich text and Position/Zoom/Rotation controls for independent sizing and animating.
— Scroll: (supports rich text) Automatically automates a scrolling title sequence from the bottom to the top of the screen. The duration of the generator clip in the Timeline determines the speed of the scroll. Identical parameters as the Simple title.
— Text: (supports rich text) Useful for creating titles consisting of a word, line, or paragraph of text. A single body of text shares one set of rich text controls that let you style selected parts of the title text differently.
— Text+: (does not support rich text) An advanced title generator based on the title generation tools on the Fusion page. This generator has significantly more options for styling, rendering, and animating than the simple title generator above, but all title text shares a single style.
— Fusion Titles: A variety of pre-built title templates assembled in Fusion. DaVinci Resolve comes with a library of pre-assembled Fusion titles, but you can also create your own to appear in this category of the Effects browser.