Video Editing from Start to Finish, Part 3 of 4
Broadcast quality titlers were expensive and hard to operate. Less expensive stand-alone titlers often had severe stylistic limitations. Today, video titling is much, much easier. Any quality software is likely to have built-in graphics and titling capabilities that would have been the envy of even a network TV station only a decade ago.
You may be tempted to think of your software's titling program as nothing more than a glorified word processor. Don't. The techniques necessary for putting words on a TV screen have only the most basic principals in common with the design and layout of printed documents. The video editor's goal is to get legible text to display on the comparatively rough resolution of a video raster, which is, in many ways, much harder than print on paper. It's a whole 'nother bal…
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