Instructor: How do we create scrolling
titles for the end of a film perhaps?
Click the New Item button,
choose Title, rename it.
I'll call this End Credits.
Click OK, and then from this menu up here,
the roll crawl options, click that,
and choose roll which will have
the rolling credits from bottom to the top
or crawl left or crawl right
which we'll roll them from the left or the right
or going to the left or to the right.
Then, there's this start offscreen option
which is good.
Let me just leave those unchecked,
and then I'll show you what that does.
Then all we have to do is
with the type tool or with the area type tool
which might be better for this,
is create basically a text box where you want it.
We can centre our text.
We can change the size of our text.
We can choose a more clean text.
I like Helvetica,
and then we can type in our credits.
So, we'll see, say a film by Phil Ebiner
starring Anthony Carbajal.
And you can see what happens is that
our text starts to disappear
'cause our text block isn't big enough.
So let's expand that,
and what happens when I expand that?
We have the scroll bar on the right hand side
which allows us to scroll through
our text to see what it looks like.
Then say we had cinematography,
and I would write down my cinematographers.
Will Carnahan, Sam Shimizu-Jones, etc.
You know I could go through everything.
Music by Nick Benavides.
And if we scroll down, we have to extend
this a little bit longer, okay?
So now you can just add all your text.
You can design it however you want.
Exit out of that.
Add this end credits to your film
or to your timeline.
And now let's see.
When I play through this, it scrolls
through all of them,
but what happens is that it doesn't
scroll through, it doesn't start black
and end in black.
So that's what that option was
when we went to our roll crawl options.
Click this start offscreen and start end offscreen.
Okay?
Now if we exit out of that and play through it,
it starts offscreen and ends offscreen.
But this is way too fast.
It's super easy to make it slower.
Just extend the length of our credits
by clicking on the edge and dragging out.
So now it will scroll,
and really, with scrolling tech credits,
the key is to go slower than you think
because when you export it,
and when you're projecting it or
when it's playing on a computer or a TV even,
if it's going too fast,
you get a little bit of a flicker as it moves.
So going really slow is a good idea.
That being said, with scrolling credits
I don't suggest putting end credits
on all of your videos,
especially any sort of short video
that you put online.
I would only put end credits on
something like an actual short
documentary, a narrative film, a longer film,
something that really deserves credits
and you want people to sit through the credits
as if this is a YouTube video,
no one's going to sit through
30 seconds of scrolling credits.
So be aware of when and where
you should actually have credits
at the end of your films.