> Things like spin in, drip in, tilted zoom, newspaper overlay, etc are great to perk things up, but can't find in 3,

Bryan,

It’s all there. You can add any transition to a title to animate it! In the upper left and right hand corners of any event (including titles) is a little handle that you can move inward toward the center of the event to have it fade in and out. You can also drop any transition you want to change the fade to that transition. So just add a Spiral or Zoom or Cross Effect, or any other transition to the beginning or end of your title and it will Spiral in or Zoom in or out or whatever. That gives you 16 base animations (Barndoor, Clock Wipe, Cross Effect, Dissolve, Iris, Linear Wipe, Page Peel, Page Roll, Push, Slide, Spiral, Split, Squeeze, Swap, Venetian Blinds, and Zoom) plus all the permutations of each. This should keep your titles pretty animated.

Also, you can also add any of the 28 Video FX to a title. Try splitting your title and adding a Video FX (like Swirl) to the beginning. Now change the end of the FX to be normal. Your title will now swirl onto the screen! Don’t forget you can combine VideoFX in a chain to add more than one. Be creative.

Try placing a swirl between to titles i.e., split both titles and add the Swirl FX to the right split of the first event and the left split of the second event. Use the Begin and End keyframes to make the left one start with an Amount of zero and end at 1.000. Have the right event begin and 1.000 and end at zero. When you play them back the first titles swirls in and then when it swirls back out it’s the second title!

~jr