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Credit roll
Masters:
Has anyone found a better way to do a credit roll than Boris Title Crawl? I can’t get my text to look as sharp as it does in stills. I’ve tried Flicker 1:2:3, Constantly rasterize, and no correction, and the results range from soft to terrible. There must be something better.
Thanks for your help.
Fred
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8 Replies
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Combustion
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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Hi Fred,
A while back I was having trouble getting After Effects to render an end crawl in HD uncompressed (3 minutes in length) so I used Photo shop to create a giant TIFF file of the entire scroll top to bottom, then took that in to After Effects to scroll down.
Quality was unaffected.
Hope that’s of some use.
Cheers,
Jim
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CHV Electronics “The Text Collection” Plug In contains a “credit roll” application that works well – global style settings, up to nine different style and/or format settings per sequence, up to 9 different logos/graphic elements per sequence, all within FCP. Can setup your credit sequence in a text document and then paste it into the application. It’s not “Inscriber”, but it works.
https://www.chv-plugins.com/cms/Fx-Script/Text-collection/Text-collection.php?navanchor=1010026
For $50 you get this and 9 other text applications.
Herb Sevush
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[Herb Sevush] “For $50 you get this and 9 other text applications.”
Hey Herb,
Certainly less expensive than my suggestion…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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DRW –
Coming from the PC world I have always been shocked at the total inadequacy of tools for making credit rolls in the Mac world. As far as I can see the CHV plug in is the only reasonable option for Credit Rolls for FCP – which is NOT a good thing. It uses the FCP text UI which is like something from the early days of DOS – incredibly archaic, difficult and limiting. However it is the only program that I am aware of that has the basic features necessary to construct proper credit rolls:
1) – Global Settings – so that if you decide to change the color of all the proper names from white to yellow, or the font type from bold to italic, you make the change once and it alters the look of every name in the credits. This is an absolute must as far as I’m concerned and I don’t think there’s any other application that will handle this in the FCP world.
2) – Ability to easily go back and forth from different formats – centered, 2 column, left or right indented to any point you choose – you can even have multiple formats within one credit roll.
3) – Ability to easily add or delete or move around elements without screwing up the timing of the roll.
4) – Ability to add graphics or logos as element of credits.
Even if they were giving away Combustion for free, which might happen any day now, the CHV would be the better option for this one thing.
Herb Sevush
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Herb,
I also miss Inscriber with edit*!
One quick question though, does the CHV plug-in work on HD credit rolls,and more importantly, does it render cleanly without all the artifacts, flickering and “formulas” needed for any other imported credit rolls (AE, RED) renders within FCP??
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Thanks to all of you for valuable info. This is a great forum.
Fred
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Christopher –
I’ve used it on HD, SD anamorphic and standard: no problems, no flickering, no formulas – also no kerning on a line by line basis, but hey what do you expect when you’re no longer working with *edit.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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