This tutorial is based on Adobe Premiere 5.1 for Apple Mac. The Windows version is very similar but newer versions of Premiere (version 6+) are slightly different.

The title window is where you create all your text pages and rolling captions. The main section of the window, contains your title in all its glory. On the left is your toolbox, and at the top (on the menu bar, in the Mac OS version) is the title window, where you can select fonts, type justification, and other text formatting options.

The toolbox contains the select tool (top left), colour select tool (top right), text tool (next down), and rolling text tool (bottom left). In between, are various shape drawing tools. Apart from the line tool, these all have two modes (depending on which half of the icon you select): unfilled shapes (left) or filled shapes.

Below those tools are the colour selection boxes. The top two boxes show the foreground and shadow colours. Either of these can be set as a gradient pattern by choosing two colours in the smaller boxes, and gradient direction by selecting one of the arrows surrounding the lowest colour box.

At the bottom is the shadow placement box. By dragging the mouse around this box you can place letter shadows in any position you like. If you don't want a shadow, simply drag the shadow exactly under the real letter.

Right-click (or ctrl-click) in the title, to get a menu with various text formatting options, and title window options. In the title window options you can change the background colour and size of the title.

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