legacy title - white text on black/gray background

[VM127878]

Hi.

Such a simple task but I don't know how to do it. I need to write subtitles (I use legacy titles) for 1 hour length interview and I want to use white text with a grayish transparent background. Example - any kind of youtube video with an option for subtitles, or https://cdn.tutsplus.com/vector/uploads/legacy/qt/2012_QT/qt_14_highlight_text/final%20product.jpg How do I achieve this effect?

Thank you,

G.R.

[Vishu_Aggarwal]

Instead of using Legacy titles you can create subtitles using captions option in Premiere Pro CC which would be easier and faster for creating subtitles.

Have a look at following tutorials -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhHG4f-9MBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_UO8fBPIg

In case you want to create subtitles using legacy title option only then have a look at the image below -  

[VM127878]

Thank you for your answer. Can you please explain how would I do that using caption option?

Is this the only way for legacy titles? Seems a lot of extra work, and and titles do not look good.

[Carlos Ziade]

to add for the video I shared, drag using Alt + drag and not copy and paste, in order to create

a second copy of your legacy title so that you can edit each one separately

[VM127878]

thank you for your answers. I find using legacy titles easier, too bad the extra work for background colouring puts me off. There is a button in open captions option for background colour, why there isn't one in legacy title?

[Carlos Ziade · Accepted solution]

There is, you just have to select the rectangle shape (if that's what you mean by background) and change the fill color

you have to select whatever element yuo are working with and change its parameters

if you want to change the color once for all rectangles, create only a rectangle in the legacy title

the open another legacy title and type your text

Copy and paste the Text by ALT + dragging

Copy and paste the rectangle using copy paste or simply drag it from the project panel, when

you double click on it and edit it, it will edit in all the other rectangles on the timeline

[Carlos Ziade]

You can also try this mogrt I found for you on Adobe Stock if you are on CC 2017.1 and up :

Dynamic Subtitles stock graphic design and motion graphic templates | Adobe Stock

[Carlos Ziade]

Check out this quick video tutorial I prepared please

Dropbox - legacy text.mp4