From the course: Learning Typography for Video Editors
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Lower thirds made easy with automation
From the course: Learning Typography for Video Editors
Lower thirds made easy with automation
- [Instructor] Sometimes when it comes to text design you need to create the same type of text over and over again inside a project. While Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects allow multiple ways to duplicate text, along with other non-linear editors, there's nothing more efficient that I've seen besides the Photoshop to Premiere workflow. So Photoshop has this little trick that you can use to essentially spit out a number of graphics at once using what they call variables. So I wanna give you a sense for what you see in front of you. I've got a document, it's a lower third, and there's a background texture, there's three pieces of text, as well as we can see a Flag PNG symbol. What I'd like to is replace each of these categories with the actual person's name, occupation, and country, as well as I would like the graphic to switch as well. Now what you can do is Photoshop a spreadsheet and it will scan this spreadsheet, it has to be a very simple spreadsheet document, a .csv file. It…
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