Creating Rolling Credits with an Alignment similar to Hollywood movies

[Mark Frazier]

No, you don’t seem dense, but I may seem that way by the time this is all done…..

In my last post, I think I had finally visualized what you were trying to create. My apologies for not seeing it sooner. When I saw that you had a page-centered “header”, as well as the two columns of credits, I went about creating the roll a different way. You should be able to do the entire roll in a single layer, it was just a bit more difficult to get the columns and header positioned where I thought they should be.

For this example, ignore the earlier posts about making two separate text containers, matching keyframes, etc.

The whole text page should be center-justified (this will center the header between the columns.) For the two columns of credits, you will need to use the tab function to justify and position the text. Set a right-justify tab to the left of center, and a left-justify tab to the right of center. For each new line of text, hit the tab key BEFORE you type the left column; when you finish typing the info for that column, hit tab to take you to the right column. Do this for each line of text, and they should line up the same way you lined up the title containers from before.

For the next header, don’t use the tab key at all and it should center-justify the header info.

The problem I ran into was that if the names in the right column were too long, it throws off the column spacing in relationship to the centered header, so you’ll need to enter all of the info for the complete roll, then move the tab markers to center everything back up.

Once you get all of this built, you only have one big long “page” of text to roll, so there won’t be any need to make separate title layers and containers, match in and out settings, etc.

I hope I finally made sense out of this, and I apologize again for describing two different ways to do this and confusing the matter more than I should have. Best of luck on this round.

Mark

[Steven Pukin]

Thanks. I think this just might work. I will have to render it out to see though.

About modifying keyframes on After Effects, they seem to not be as straightforward as the ones in Premiere Pro. I don’t know, maybe I just am more comfortable with the way they are laid out in Premiere Pro. What I ultimately want to do is have the “INSERT GENERIC FILM TITLE” at slow down, freeze in the middle and fade to black after a few seconds. So I am going to try and do that in premiere instead. I once posted in the AE forum about this, and then they went off on me, saying I should look at the help files (which I did) and how all the rest of them are experts…Anyways, it’s too much of a headache.

There is also the issue of slowing down the roll (even the slowest roll seems-100 pixels per sec for Boris Title Crawl, is a little faster than typical film credit rolls). I was thinking that I could try slowing down the exported credits video in premiere pro a little bit. But I am concerned that might end up causing the credits to look degraded in some fashion. If you have any experience in this, let me know.

I will give it a try I guess to see what happens. Otherwise, I will leave well enough alone and just deal with the credits the way they are.

anyways, I will let you know how the credits turned out the way you described. Sometimes it’s hard to convey exactly what you want. My explanations seem to always come out convuluted haha.

[Alexis J. estevez]

I discovered the best and easiest method is within Boris Title Crawl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vaq6D8atjI

http://www.alexisestevez.com

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[Alexis J. estevez]

I discovered the best and easiest method is within Boris Title Crawl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vaq6D8atjI

http://www.alexisestevez.com

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