ngsilver wrote:A lot of that if you're talking in line with Nostromo credits is effects related. Not sure if you can pull a lot of that off in Elements (never used elements) but I doubt it considering much of it can't be done with premier pro. If that's what you looking to try to do or emulate, the effects forum would be better suited to your question.
However, generally intros or bumpers really are all about how fancy you want to get. It's basically just a way to put your credits in the video so the viewer knows who made it, the song, ect. and in the end it really isn't needed TBH. For me what I do usually all depends on the video, though generally I prefer credits at the end of the video. For my speed racer vid I actually put the credits in the opening segment similar to how a movie would integrate the credits into the opening scene. It required using text, multiple effects such as movement, position, ect and time to tweak it and get it to look right.
Personally, I'd much rather spend more time getting to know my NLE and the basic techniques required to make my videos then to try to spend that much effort on credits.
you do have a point, i just thought it looked really neat the way he did it, but the way you are talking about would be pretty cool too, just want to do credits that kind of match up with the amv, i remember back when i was using movie maker, the one thing i hated was the fact that you had to make your creds the blue screen with a set font and coloring.
im trying to avoid that by any means possible lol.
@jaddzia - track movement? what i figured he did was used PS elements and plugged it into adobe prem, kinda like a gif style intro, but i wasnt to sure.