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Two categories present two different kinds of titles. The “Titles” category presents simple, bare-bones titles that you can customize in a variety of different ways. Of the available options, the Text title is
the most flexible. The “Fusion Titles” category presents more complicated titles that are more visually sophisticated and have more preset animation.
Adding Titles
You can add a title to the Timeline by opening the Titles Browser and dragging and dropping titles into the Timeline wherever you want them to be, just like any other clip. The default duration of a title clip is 5 seconds. This standard “generator” duration can be customized in the Editing panel of the User Preferences.
Once edited into the Timeline, titles can be moved, resized, and superimposed much like any other clip. Furthermore, when selected, both titles and generators expose the same Transform, Cropping, Speed, and Composite controls as any other clip; these controls can be used to composite titles in various ways to create different text effects.
Editing Titles
Once you add a title to the Timeline, the original title generators that shipped with DaVinci Resolve have onscreen controls that let you edit text and transform and position blocks of text directly within the Timeline Viewer.
Positioning and Transforming Text
So long as the Timeline playhead is positioned over a text generator that’s on top of one or more background clips, clicking on the text in the Timeline Viewer reveals onscreen transform controls that correspond to the Position, Zoom, and Rotation parameters in the Inspector.
Transforming a title’s text box in the Viewer
While dragging text to reposition it, snapping occurs at the X and Y center of the frame, as well as around the outer third of the frame. Holding the Shift key down while dragging a text object constrains movement to just the X or Y axes. Holding the Option key down turns snapping off.
Editing Text
Double-clicking on text in the Timeline Viewer puts that text into an editable state, wherein you can insert a text cursor or select characters to edit the text as you would in any text editor.
Editing the text of a title in the Viewer
Editing Titles Using the Video Inspector
For more precise control of your titles, double-clicking on any title will bring up its parameters in the Video Inspector. Here you can change fonts, colors, drop shadows, backgrounds, etc. You can
also adjust basic transform parameters and cropping as well. For more information on Editing Titles,
see Chapter 48, “Titles, Generators, and Stills.”
The Title settings of Video Inspector