rolling credits

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Set vertical position key frames in the motion tab so that the top of the credits are visible at the beginning of the clip and the bottom of the credits are seen at the end of the clip.

You must only make quality judgments while viewing an external video monitor, not the computer monitor, and only after rendering.

All that said, you will still have difficulty with the quality of the credit roll due to vertical scan-line issues and visible artifacts around the small curves and edges of the type.

The “speed” (length of time, versus length of credits) of the roll will directly affect the artifacting.

I suggest you use the SEARCH as this question is frequently discussed.

[David Roth weiss]

The nice folks at Aplle included Livetype in FCS for free, it does a pretty ban-up job of creating credit rolls and its super fast. You should try it.

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[Matt Devino]

I always use shake to make sure my credit rolls are moving at 4 pixels per frame so I don’t get any jitter going on when playing on an HD monitor (i think you can set this up in motion too). It’s a pretty standard speed and looks great in SD too. You set the position of the roll for the first frame, then on the second frame move it up 2 pixels, then tell shake (in the curve editor)to continue this linear motion for the entire length of the roll and it moves the roll at a constant 4pixels/frame. I create my end roll in illustrator and base the dimensions around the length of time for the roll i.e. a 3 minute roll in HD would be 3min x 60 seconds x 24frames/sec x 4pixels/frame = 17280 pixels by 1920 pixels. Layout your text in a document this size and your good to go. Sounds like a lot of work, but it will make the best possible looking rolling credits you can get.