How do I modify motion graphics titles?

[KLC1]

I'm using motion graphics for titles on interviews I do and I can't seem to figure out how to make the masks longer or shorter based on the name for each interviewee. 

Also, I can't figure out how to make the motion graphic title stay on the screen longer than 5 seconds.

Thanks!

 

[R Neil Haugen]

There are some useful tutorials out on the interwebs ... and some horrificly flawed ones of course.

Premiere can make some pretty awesome graphics now. However, AfterEffects is built to do this sort of thing, and is far more capable and powerful. There's always a consideration how far to try and go in Pr before you simply go to Ae to build them of course.

There's online material by Nick Harauz, Eran Stern, KylesourusRex, and Jarle Leirpoll that are very good. There's also the free ebook of Jarle's Adobe provides on making easy to create but awesome graphics in Ae. (I was spell checker/grammarian/tester for that in creation.)

Jarle’s Making Mogrt’s ebook on Adobe blog

[AnnikaKoenig]

Hi!

1. Bring up the Essential Graphics panel through the top Windows menu
2. Make sure you are in the "Selection Tool" (Looks like an arrow)
3. Click on one of the Text layers in Program Monitor, this will also select it in the Essential Graphics panel

Here you will see all your layers. I assume you have two text layers and two shape layers. Instead of using shape layers, you can just turn on "Background" for the text layer pretty low in the Essential Graphics panel. There are some limitations to using Background over shapes, but if that works for you, that's the easiest.

 

You can make the graphic longer by clicking at the ending edge of the clip in the timeline and dragging it out.

Let me know if you have more questions!

Annika

[Peru Bob]

I can't figure out how to make the motion graphic title stay on the screen longer than 5 seconds.
By @KLC1

Make a cut and do a frame grab.  Place the frame grab between the cut clips and stretch it to the required length.

Alternatively, use a frame hold.

[AnnikaKoenig · Accepted solution]

Thanks @Peru Bob  but I do not recommend using frame holds and cutting the graphic is also not required. A title can just be trimmed to a desired length.