a programme for adding titles?

[Goldmund]

Hey,

my girlfriend's going to have a presentation of her workshop's project.
It's going to be a slideshow in a movie format (avi) - just some photos appearing one after another.
The problem is with adding titles to them. They're supposed to move in and out, scroll, roll, appear and disappear etc.
Dominika has done it in Adobe Premiere. It seems that Premiere doesn't handle adding titles too well - the movement is really jaggy and jumpy and it's not the fault of any codec used to export the movie.
It seems that Premiere just sucks this way.

Here comes a question to you, my wise friends from the whole world:
Do you know of any programme (freeware VERY preferably) with which you can add titles to a movie? We are looking for something which gives you complete control of the titles whereabouts, their movement and position, font etc.

Help?

Anyone?

[..]

Pinnacle Studio I would say definately.  Its not freeware but you can download a trial from their site and I think it only needs a registration code to become fully unlocked (*cough*)

It lets you choose the precise moment they appear and you can visually edit them to where they appear on the screen and their colour size, etc. Even have pictures on the titles in a simple drag and drop WYSIWYG way. 

The titles appear on a seperate timeline from the video in the editor and therefore you can add your own transitions to them to make them appear, dissapear, fade etc. Even special effects where they roll up and go and stuff.

I strongly recomend it if you haven't guessed already!!!

[Goldmund]

Big thanks, captain Scuthbert!

DOWNLOADING..... now!

[Sylpher]

After effects is much better for this type of thing then Premiere is. Just for future reference.

[Goldmund]

After Effects?...
I remember I had a disk with "After Effects" written on it... somewhere...
Hm, maybe I'll try this first, and if this fails, I'll check the P-Studio8 Trial - it is more than 100 MB, not exactly a small download...

Thanks to both of you, I was losing hope someone will answer!

[Darth Mandarb]

I have Pinnacle Studio v9 Deluxe ...

While I find it not as full featured as I'd like, it does add titles easily and they work great!Ã,  I've made a few DVDs with it already; creating titles, credits, etc.Ã,  and they all turned out really well.

I just got my hands on the newest Adobe Suite w/ Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and EncoreDVD and they're supposed to be miles ahead of Pinnacle ... I wonder what was going on with the titles?  Are you using an older version of Premiere?

[Sam.]

if you're on XP, windows movie maker works fine for my basic needs.

[Goldmund]

I have Pinnacle Studio v9 Deluxe ...
While I find it not as full featured as I'd like, it does add titles easily and they work great!Ã,  I've made a few DVDs with it already; creating titles, credits, etc.Ã,  and they all turned out really well.
I just got my hands on the newest Adobe Suite w/ Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and EncoreDVD and they're supposed to be miles ahead of Pinnacle ... I wonder what was going on with the titles?Ã,  Are you using an older version of Premiere?

The version's number 6, so I suppose it's not very old.
We've made the titles as separate frames on another track (transparent bitmaps from Photoshop) for Premiere's title editor sucks big time - it's just dirty, small and slow. Then we added movement to them. It came out very jagged and jumpy, not to mention they became horribly pixelated - perhaps a transparency problem?
Anyway, now a friend came to us and she teaches us to use After Effects, we'll see if it'll be better...