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Tons of names for creditsPosted by PhillyFilmmaker
Ooof. Been there. My list was VERY close to that, 510. I had to use the FCP internal scroll option (the boris one)...and it took 4 minutes for the names to go by. Because we had to make sure that everyone saw their name. This was a goof reel for the end of a TV series.
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It's ALWAYS cooler to use After Effects
I treat opening / closing credits as equal design pieces (look at The Incredibles for example). What I would do is instead of a boring 5 minute barrage of a sleepy text roll, Create a slow roll off to one side and composite a PIP of maybe some out takes / b-roll / deleted scenes / set pics / etc to good music (not elevator tracks). The majority of people never stay for the credits so I always like to make them worth staying for. I am one of those that have always stayed & got my 10 year old boy doing it too. There's always fun stuff that you miss if you leave too early. When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
As an alternate viewpoint, do you have to do a scroll? With that many names, it tends to be more economical to just do cards back to back. Nobody ever lets that many credits stay long enough to read everything, so organize them alphabetically (so Person X who's looking for himself can spot himself quickly and be done with it), five seconds per card, 50 names per card, done in just under one minute.
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Oooo...have them all fly by one at a time, like the opening credits to SUPERMAN, THE MOVIE (the 1978 one)! With 500 names, it would take only...40 to 50 minutes...tops. And it looks cool.
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