Scrolling Text

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Scrolling Text

Posted by Peter Sands on March 23, 2011 at 9:01 pm

I’m creating a scrolling text for movie end credits (bottom to top). On playback the credits do not scroll up smoothly. How can I ensure that this does not happen before rendering to output?

MacBook Pro. OSX 10.6.6, 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. FCP 6.0.6.

Jeff Greenberg replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Cameron Clendaniel
March 23, 2011 at 9:14 pm

What are you using to create the text scroll? How are you monitoring the scroll (ie. in FCP Canvas window or on external monitor)?

Cameron Clendaniel
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Jeff Greenberg
March 23, 2011 at 9:23 pm

I’m assuming by ‘doesn’t scroll smoothly’ that you’re looking at it on a tv set/broadcast monitor. I’m also assuming you’re in NTSC.

For a scroll to light right, it has to vertically move an increment of the field rate (60 fields per second).
60, 120, 180, etc.

The issue is that FCP doesn’t have a way for you to control velocity.

Two methods, flicker filter is supposed to help….also Motion has tools to set scrolls exactly to 60lines per sec.

Best,

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Peter Sands
March 25, 2011 at 12:11 am

Cameron, Jeff,

Thank you. Yes, I’m looking at it on a tv monitor. Would it be safer to export the clip to a QT mov file for Motion?

Peter

MacBook Pro. OSX 10.6.6, 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. FCP 6.0.6.
Jeff Greenberg
March 25, 2011 at 1:02 am

If you tried the flicker filter in FCP and it didn’t help, then you can do this in motion.

The Text generator does not go to motion – so you’ll have to copy/paste the text.
Then you can either render a ProRes 4444 file for FCP or just use the project itself.

As far as it’s length, it’s difficult to ‘know’ because the length is very relative to the length needed to scroll the text at 60 or 120 lines per second.

You’ll find it as a Behavior for Text. You’ll need to switch it to the specific speed.

Best,

Jeff G

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