credit screen roll?

[peacefrog]

Hi everyone,
Has this ever been tried...like incorporate a rolling credits or information into videostudio....would be interested to hear how done?

cheers
froggy

[Ken Berry]

Have you ever looked in the Title screen? You are given the choice of rolling titles (i.e. your credits or anything else) from top to bottom, bottom to top, right to left and vice versa. And you can control the speed, including having the title pause in the middle of the screen then move on. Play around with it.

[peacefrog]

Thanks for that...will do!!!

cheers

[Vasan]

Thank you Ken ! I would like to know the best way to have the credit roll, when the list is long. I tried to fit the long list in 2 frames without any transition. There is long delay after the first frame. Is there a way to fit a long list of names in one single frame or reduce the delay.

regards
Vasan

[Ken Berry]

I am not quite sure what you are doing or what you mean by 'frame'. Are you trying to do the rolling credits over a part of your video and are thus limited in the time that is available for the credits to roll? Or have you done the credits as a separate overlay over, for example, a still photo or solid colour? If it is the latter, then you can set the duration for however long is necessary for the entire credit list to roll. When you are setting up your credit overlay, in addition, you choose 'fly' in the Animation area -- I think the default is from bottom to top (i.e. the normal direction for a credit roll). It also allows you (when you click on the TT icon to the right of the Animation Type box) to specify 'no pause', and there is also an 'Accelerate' box you can click in the top left of that pop-up box.

If you are overlaying the credits over part of the end of your main clip, then it is a personal choice you have to make if you have limited time available in the clip in which to make the overlay i.e. if you wish the credits to start in one particular spot and no other, because, say, the video that comes before that spot is too important to be obscured by an overlay. The personal choice is between either making the credit roll so fast as to be meaningless, or else to slim it down. The only other alternative that I can think of is to either use some of the cut out video from the final scene as an 'underlay' beneath the credit roll just to give it continuity but not showing anything of importance. (You could also repeat a bit of the edited clip.) Or else you could begin the credit roll towards the end of your video and then fade that into a solid colour background which you set for whatever time is necessary for the credits to finish and then fade to black.

[BrianCee]

I *think* what Vasan was saying was that he had a very long list of credits and split it over two 'titles' (frames) but that there was a bit of a delay in one title ending and the next beginning.

Don't think you need to do that Vasan - I don't know what the maximum nunber of lines you can have in a scrolling credit is but it is quite a lot - did you try doing the whole thing as just one title - if it goes by to quick just extend the total time - that will slow it down - although judging by the speed some TV show credits rush by I sometimes wonder if you are supposed to read them any way !!

[edinbro]

Hi
I have tried to do exactly the same and cannot get the credits to roll smoothly ....I had a total of 18 lines and no matter how I tried to "tweak"
them it would not work

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

The preview screen is not the best at displaying your work and can be unstable at best.
Long titles, transitions, in fact anything that needs to be played simultaneously are very demanding.

Changing the playback method to ‘High quality playback’ should improve things.
The frames are rendered to temp files in the preview folder.
The preview now uses the files to playback
The downside is the time taken to render the files and the extra memory space required.

Trevor

[THoff]

You also have to give the animated title sufficient time to scroll. If it scrolls too quickly, it will appear to jump no matter what you do. Another issue results from how interlaced TVs display text -- in order to scroll smoothly, the scroll rate (controlled in Videostudio by the duration) must be matched so the title scrolls an even number of lines per frame. Unfortunately, that's something that Videostudio doesn't provide precise control over.

For more background information, read this post.

[TubaDad]

I feel like I need new glasses, but where is this rolling feature in the title window. I would like do the same thing, but I can not find the ability to roll through the titles in either screen, edit or animation.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Not sure where you mean ( but where is this rolling feature in the title window.)
When in animation select ‘Fly’ from the ‘Type’ box then click the two ‘TT’ symbols for more options.

Trevor

[THoff]

You would probably also want to add a number of blank lines above and below the actual credits to allow them to scroll into and then out of view. The scrolling speed is controlled entirely by the duration of the title.