Chapter 7: How to Make Awesome Slide Shows | Add a Title Screen (or Ending Screen)?

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Add a Title Screen (or Ending Screen)?

Go to the Titles panel, in the right side Panels area, and turn on the Intro Screen checkbox (or Ending Screen, whichever you want to create). Turning this on only creates a blank screen at the start (or end) of your slide show, so if you want to add text, and create a title slide, then you’ll need to turn on the Add Identity Plate checkbox, as well (as seen above left). To edit the text that will appear on your title slide, click on the little down-facing triangle in the bottom-right corner of the Identity Plate preview window (the checkerboard rectangle) and choose Edit, which brings up the Identity Plate Editor (shown above right). Type in your text in the text field, then highlight it and choose a font, size, and style from the pop-up menus below (here, I chose Al Fresco, available at MyFonts.com). On the far right, there’s a color swatch that shows the current color. Just click on that swatch to bring up the Colors picker to choose a new color (remember, these changes only affect type you’ve highlighted first). When you click OK, you’ll see your title slide appear onscreen for a few seconds and then it goes away. I have no idea why it does it, but it does. Always has. But, the trick to getting it back onscreen is to just click-and-hold on the Scale slider knob (it controls the size of your text on the Intro screen, even though theoretically you just chose the size in the Identity Plate Editor, right?). Anyway, clicking-and-holding on that Scale slider knob makes your Intro screen visible again, so you can tweak the size. There’s no way to change the position of the type on the Intro screen, though, it will always be centered. If you’re thinking this all sounds very limiting and weird, just know that you’re not alone.