Need Help with Credit Scrolling in Premiere

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Need Help with Credit Scrolling in Premiere

Postby VirtuaFury » Fri Oct 04, 2002 4:44 pm

I don't know if I'm overlooking the effect but could anyone tell me how I can make my credits scroll up at the end of my video's like in a movie. If you know please let me know

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Postby klinky » Fri Oct 04, 2002 10:48 pm

Well no one has responded to this so I guess I'll give you my opinion on how this should be done.


Some may say to use the Title Tool that comes with Premiere, I believe the manual suggests this even. I find that tool sucky and clunky.

A prettier and much more flexiable way of doing so is done with two things:

A large bitmap image & the Image Pan effect.


Make a large bitmap, how large depends on your video. What you want is the image to be the same width as your video, but atleast 3 times as high.

You'll place your credits in the middle, with the top and bottom portions being a solid color of your choice(most likely black).

Here's a image I made :

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Pretty freakin' huge.

You take this into Premiere. Drag it to the timeline and then add the "Image Pan" Effect(located under transform). Enable keyframing, then move the scrub line to the begining of the clip/image. Hit setup on image pan. Hold down the Alt key, this makes it keep the proper aspect ratio so it doesn't look squished, the box should turn into a rectangle at the top of the image.

Just hit OK. Then goto the end of the clip. Hit Setup on Image Pan again, hold down alt again, this time drag the rectangle to the bottom of the image.

Now preview your project. It should make the image scroll.

You can adjust the length of the clip to make it scroll smoother.

I also added some music and adjusted the transperancy rubber bands to get a nice fade in/fade out effect near the end.

<a href="http://home.attbi.com/~klinky/comp-demo.avi">My demo movie</a>.


Hope this helps ;)


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Postby The Wired Knight » Fri Oct 04, 2002 11:10 pm

I didn't realize it was that complex in premiere. In Studio DV you just type in what you want, drag and drop images where you need and tell it scroll, it takes all ofa minute. Course the method you are using involves making the image to pan, mine I just put white text plus image over black background to scroll by.
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Postby klinky » Fri Oct 04, 2002 11:28 pm

Yah, I like to use this way since it really allows for control over the image.

You can use any program to make the image, so you don't have to learn a new program. The Premiere 6.5 title tool seems like a bitch and lacks functionality. That's the thing about Adobe products they kinda merge together, but the tools don't really operate the same way ;p

I used MS-Paint to make that image, but I could have also used Photoshop to make it maybe look nicer ;p

You could also add things like distortion or rotation ;p

It's also a good practice of what the Image Pan effect can do.

OMG my way of doing so is like the l33test thing ever!


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Postby Pwolf » Sat Oct 05, 2002 5:09 am

I was trying to do this like a few hours ago (editing a film for some friends). I had to find my adobe after effects CD and reinstall it to get what i needed. i should have came here first ^_^ would have saved me some time.


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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:30 am

See, I would do this... if it wasn't for the fact that Premiere's image pan looks like shit.
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Postby klinky » Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:33 am

Shux way to ruin my greatness :p

;)

I don't think it's that bad. I think compression does worse things to the scrolling then teh Premiere does. Make sure you use BOLD! & large lettering ;)

I kinda didn't do that, also the demo video was resized due to size constraints ;p


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Postby klinky » Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:38 am

Might I ask if you have another way of doing this ?
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Postby VirtuaFury » Sat Oct 05, 2002 9:17 am

Thanks alot for the reply, I will try this and if I get a good looking effect I will use this method. Maybe I will have to do like Pwolf and reinstall Adobe After Effect but hopefully I won't because klinky way sound alot simpler to do.

If anyone does have a better way please post some of your ideas
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