Title Design Essentials for Film and Video

Whether you're an experienced video editor, an indie filmmaker, or a dedicated amateur, this cookbook-style guide from bestselling author Mary Plummer will teach you how to create effective titles for your projects, no matter what your genre and subject matter may be. In addition to a wide array of clear, appealing, and appropriate recipes you can adapt for your own work, Mary provides a kind of "elements of style," explaining essential design principles such as size, color, speed, placement, and font choice. The book is beautifully illustrated, and the accompanying DVD has QuickTime movies showing examples constructed using After Effects, Motion, LiveType, Photoshop, and Flash.

Mary Plummer has been editing film and video professionally for over 15 years using film, on-line, off-line, linear, non-linear and software-based systems. An Apple Certified Trainer in Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Soundtrack Pro, she has edited music videos, documentaries, trailers, and independent feature films, and composed original music that has been used in film and video projects from coast to coast. Also a lead trainer for Apple's Pro Certification program, and travels the country and Europe training new Apple Certified Trainers. Author of numerous Apple Pro Training Series books including; Soundtrack Pro and Getting Started with Motion.