5.5 Rolling Credits with gutter?

We run 5.5 on Mac. I see in the title tool you can make them roll or crawl, but is there a trick to formatting the text in the typical Hollywood style with a gutter down the middlle? In FCP you just put a * and the justifications and space happen automatically.
Cheers,

I like Illustrator and After Effects!
See this old post and the tutorial at post 10. It uses Ann's method here (and Jim's from those old days!).
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1721137#1721137

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I want to create rolling credits with a picture of each actor alongside the actor's name. What is the easiest way to add rolling images to the rolling title?

Tim,
One was would be to create your credits in Titler, and then add a Logo, which would be the thumbnail of the actor.
Another would be to create your Title w/ embedded Image in Photoshop, Save_As PSD, and Import that into PrPro, then use Motion>Position Keyframing to do the animation.
Yet another would be to do the thumbnail as a PiP in the Title (above it, on a higher Video Track), then animate the credits Title with Motion>Position Keyfarmes, and do the same for that Image, so that they move together. You should be able to Keyframe, say the Title, then Rt-click that, choosing Copy. Next, Select the PiP Clip, Rt-click it, and choose Paste Attributes. [I've never tried this with a Title and a Still Image, but will experiment, in case there is some limitation there, but do not think there will be.]
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[Edit] In my test, those Motion>Position Keyframes Copied over perfectly.

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do you set up tabs to create rolling credits? I have always had to have credits and names in one continuous centred column, but I have just seen how easy it is to set up properly tabbed text in Premiere, so that the credits are all left-justified and the names right-justified. Surely this can be done in FCP?

If you mean a central gutter, there are two ways built in to FCP that I know of. The first, is using the scroll text generator. With this, you type the title of the person, then an asterisk, then the Name of the Person.
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The advantage to doing it this way, with Boris, is I get less flickering with the scroll. The regular title crawl seems to flicker a bunch. I also lower the opacity of my Boris Title Crawl clip to about 75-80%, making it slightly off white. On a TV you don't really notice it and it looks white.
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I'm pretty new to iMovie, but I've made a few very simple ones successfully, i.e., title and single clip, no transitions, no external sound files, etc.
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For a program that is supposed to be easy to use, iMovie sure is a pain in the butt.
So, I gave up, deleted my 'uneditable' Rolling Credits clip and made a new one and retyped everything. Ok, fine, it seemed to be working ok . . . though the sound seemed out of synch if I watched too many clips in a row. I figured this was just an iMovie playback issue since it reset if I hit pause then play again . . . UNTIL I burned a DVD use iDVD (I set up a theme, etc.) and played it in our DVD player—the sound was off by a second or more! Gag. Lovely.
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Sorry for all the questions but its crunch time here and I have several DVD's that I have to finish for Christmas shows.
On Rolling Credits. What is the secret to the right font to use for that? I had a very fancy Brush Script font that looks awesome in the still frame but it terrible in the preview and render to highest quality SD.
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When rolling credits over video, the video seems to be "jerky, or flickering" is there something I can do?

I think that Rendering will help, per your description. Along with that, also be aware that one can NOT use the Rolling Preset, and instead use the fixed Effect>Motion>Position and Keyframe that as an animation. You will still need to Render for smooth playback (Rendering is only for smooth playback). With Keyframing, you can "pause" the Roll, and have it come in, and go out, at different speeds. So very much control.
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First off yes, all that text slows things down. You can always break it into smaller projects.
Since you sent the files, I've been playing with a number of different things to improve your credit roll.
First off I believe the font style you selected makes it difficult. I would suggest a rounded or at least a bolder type as opposed to the bold condensed type face, you emailed to me.
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In Live Type I changed your font size from 20pt to 26pt, but I bet it would be even better at 32pt
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Once I brought it into FCP I realized your white levels were too high at 100% and using the three way color corrector lowered the white levels to 85%
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I also added a gray drop shadow but it didn't make much difference and I probably should have added that in Live Type.
I burned a DVD and checked it on a couple of different monitors and it was okay but certainly not perfect.
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how are you set 4 first columns as static cells displaying only actuals and the 12 latter as input ready cells open for planning.?
and how about you designer cube that is include what characterices and key figure
you said
In the planning layout/query:
- On the lines Cost Elements are shown
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this periods is set as a keyfigures?
Now I am face the same problem
how to set 4 first columns as static cells displaying only and how to set the 12 latter as input ready cells open for planning.?
if periods is move to next periods
how to rolling this plan ??
hope you can help me
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