End Credits Template?

[Michael Szalapski]

If you just want a regular scroll. You could animate a null object’s position value and then parent your text to it. However, this can cause problems if the timing isn’t right (especially on interlaced TVs). There was a pretty famous preset around called Mercury Jones that solved that problem, but it got out of date.

From the creator of the Mercury Jones preset, Mr. Kevin Camp himself, here is the expression he wrote that supersedes good ol’ Mercury Jones:
rate = 2; //value in px/sec.
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
if (time > marker.key(1).time){
value - [0,rate*timeToFrames(time-marker.key(1).time)];
}else{
value;
}
}else{
value - [0,rate*timeToFrames(time-inPoint)];
}

OR THIS
add this expression to the position property:

offset=2; //value in pixels per frame
y=offset*timeToFrames(time-inPoint);
value-[0,y];
set the credit layer’s position at it’s inpoint to off-screen bottom (or where ever you want it to start), and it will march up the screen until the end of the comp/layer. adjust the offset variable as needed, but you’ll probably need to keep it less than 5 or 6, or the text will get start getting hard to read…

another way that is easier for many to work with for timing is to create 2 keyframes for position that are 1 frame apart. set the y value for the second key frame to be the number of pixels per frame movement that you need (say 2 pixels).

then add this expression:

loopOut('continue')

the movement will not happen until time hits the first keyframe, so timing can be adjusted in a more familiar way, then the code just continues that movement. you might add this animation and expression to a null, then parent the credits to the null to make it easy to adjust the credit position separate from the animation.

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