Learning Typography for Video Editors

Improve your typography skills and create better type treatments for your video editing projects.

Creating text is an important part of video editing. Yet most video editors have never had any sort of formal lesson in typography. Here Nick Harauz gives a crash course in typographic theory that will help you communicate more clearly and make better looking text in your next video project. Learn how the right font choice can add more impact to your message, how to keep type legible, how to design titles, how to automate lower thirds and other text elements, and how to animate type. Plus, learn how to make 3D text using popular software such as After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro—tools you already have in your editing arsenal. After watching this course, you will be able to create type treatments that fit the theme of your projects and take your video skills to a whole new level.

Introduction

• The basics of title design

1. Title Essentials

• A brief history of typography
• Type terms 101
• Type terms 102
• Convey emotion through type
• The importance of contrast
• The psychology of color
• Layout and composition
• Name that font
• Type crimes

2. Type in Video

• Common type design in video
• Keep your title safe
• Tricks for making type legible
• Color problems to consider
• Add shapes and graphics to the mix
• Lower thirds made easy with automation

3. Text in Motion

• The principles of animation
• Explore animation styles
• Make impact with sound
• Type presets in video and motion graphics apps
• Expand options for moving text
• Integrate type into footage
• The world of 3D and beyond
• Premiere Pro text tools
• Final Cut Pro text tools

Conclusion

• Next steps