credit scroll

[Jonathan Palmer]

Good luck- I tried once to do aa quick and dirty credit and ended up spending hours trying to make it look OK. Certain apps were made to do specific things. FCP is great in certain areas but I now go strait to Motion or AE for any motion graphics. Its what they do best.
JP

[Colin Barton]

i do agree. but i feel like there should be a way to make it look good in fcp, do you know what i mean? maybe i’m just crazy to think it’s even possible to get a desent scroll out of fcp.

[Bob Auiler]

If you are working in NTSC, make your roll speed a multiple of
120 lines/second and they will be smooth.

Bob Auiler | bob.auiler@mvpcollaborative.com

[Moody Glasgow]

One thing about credit scrolls, is you want it to be a nice even number. In the Smoke, I go by the rule of 4 pixels per frame. For example, if I was doing a scroll that moves 400 pixels on the y axis, I would want the duration to be 100 frames. This causes each frame of movement to be a whole number (meaning no weird decimals).
I’m exactly sure how FCP handles text scrolls, but I imagine there is a way to figure out the distance of your move, and from there you can calculate your duration.

I never new editing would involve so much math.

moody glasgow
smoke artist

[Kevin Monahan]

Mext time, use the search function:

Your text probably looks fine. It’s just that you are not monitoring properly. You can’t judge graphics on the computer monitor, only a video monitor. We say that here many times a day, EVERY day. Do so and then post your results.

You will want to use Title Crawl and NOT scrolling text too, BTW. It has a de-flicker option.

Kevin Monahan
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[Dean Sensui]

The credit scroll built into FCP is, as you already know, pretty poor.

However, if you use the one in Boris it’s very good. Boris comes with FCP.

I was doing scrolls with Photoshop and AE until I found out about how well Boris handles this. Now it’s a very simple task with clean results.

Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com

[Bob Auiler]

You can generate your text with any title tool and get beautiful rolls as long as you move it on the y-axis at multiples of 4 pixels per frame, which is the same as 120 pixels/second. The next speed after 120 is 240, which starts to get pretty fast.

Because the flicker problem is NTSC related and not a Smoke, FCP, Avid, AE etc. problem, rolling text at any other speed, flicker filter or not will give poor results, when viewed on a NTSC monitor.

Bob Auiler | bob.auiler@mvpcollaborative.com