Roll Credits - Should be sooooo easy.

I'm trying to set up a simple credit roll where the appearence on screen is two colums with the word CAST at the top.

The column on the left is the character names JUSTIFIED RIGHT. The column on the right are the Actors names JUSTIFIED LEFT. This giving a small gutter between the two sets of names.

Is there a setting within the ROLL PORTION off the text option that allows me to do this? It seems the only way is to create TWO different layers and have them scroll simultaneously. One with actors names. The other with character names... justified to fit.

It should look like this...

Beef JOHNNY DEP
Sallit NICHOLE KIDMAN
Harry RUSSEL CROWE

And so on...

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Geno Andrews

> Is there a setting within the ROLL PORTION off the text option that allows
> me to do this? It seems the only way is to create TWO different layers and
> have them scroll simultaneously.

On this kind of thing, usually I would create a Photoshop file and arrange the elements there. Even Boris Title 3D isn't very good at this.

i always wondered this myself, youd think fcp would have built in type of thing for this

Just get the text collection from CHV. Its much easier

[www.chv-plugins.com]

Agree with Michael - CHV credits plug in is outstanding - but if you FCP studio - try doing the roll in Live Type - had good success with that. Andy

It is easy. Using the scrolling text window, just type space asterix space to create a center gutter. Hit return to start the next line. Space x2 asterix space2 will give you a wider gutter. Or space x3 etc.

That do it?

Clay

Wow... what a cool trick.. I had no idea it did that? Where did you learn that? Are there other "codes" for other text generators?

Actually its been that way since V1. Just sometimes its easier to use another text generator for crawls rather than FCPs.

Scrolling Text sucks quality wise: AVOID.

Even Boris Title 3D isn't very good at this.

You're so wrong Derek! ;-)

And you don't use Title 3D, you use Title Crawl

It works great for making a center gutter. You either have to read the PDF or my book for the full low down.

In the top left of the Boris interface, you can click and drag out tab stops along the ruler. Click each tab stop to make it center, left or right justified.

BTW, making rolls is easy. Making them look good is probably one of the most difficult things to do.



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