Speed of scrolling credits

is there a way to slow down scrolling credits in imovie 09 to make them easier to read? I have only had experience adjusting the speed of video clips...

Thanks. I have actually gotten to be fairly decent with clip trimmer and the fade in, fade out and volume equalizing functions. The problem I ran up against was when I wanted to use say a minute of the song that was at the end of the song. If I import the song and it is the last clip in the iMovie project, it only imports as much of the song as there is video remaining. I have gotten around this by temporarily adding blank space to end of video just so that I can import and trim the song.
As with many things I do, I sense there must be an easier way, but I haven't found one yet!

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I know i can slow down speed in a movie clip but can i and how do i slow down a transition clip? specifically the scrolling credits. it goes so fast i cant read it

i know i can slow down speed in a movie clip but can i and how do i slow down a transition clip? specifically the scrolling credits. it goes so fast i cant read it

never mind i found the answer

Newb - smooth scrolling credits in AE ?

I am doing an intro title sequence for someone.
It consists of about three separate scrolling credits. The scroll from bottom to top.
I have done the text in Photoshop and imported it into AE.
My problem is the text appears jerky as it scrolls up.
Is there anyway to get AE to give me the smoothest scroll possible ?

If you are using the expression that I posted above all you do is set the speed to a whole number. DO NOT USE fractions.
The stutter your talking about can be caused by a bunch of factors. There's something called a seven second rule and a bunch of other info available HERE. Read both articles in this FAQ.
To change the expression to scroll horizontally just flip the values to the other parts of the array.
Expression for horizontal movement instead of vertical:
t = time;
fr = t/thisComp.frameDuration;
y = value [1];
s = 4; //Speed in pixels per frame must be a whole number
x = value[0] - (fr * s);
[x, y]
This expression gives you a little more freedom because you can position the layer anywhere you like in the comp and it will start crawling right to left.
To change the direction simply change the minus sign in the x method to a plus. To change this expression to a roll swithch the methods for x and y so Y is modified by time.
Let me explain the expression. the value[0] and value[1] declarations simply call up the original values of X and Y. The math is simple. We take time and divide it by duration of a single frame to give us a frame count in whole numbers. Then we subtract the frame number multiplied by the number of pixels we want to move from the original position. It's easy as pie.
I hope this helps.
Judder can be caused by an interaction with the refresh rate of your screen and the frame rate, from the frame rate and the movement, or from playback errors using mpeg compression. It's a bugger for some motion. Horizontal and vertical movement of hard edges like you get from text can be extremely problematic.

IMovie '11 Scrolling Credits

I'm using Scrolling Credits for the last clip in my movie. The credits whizzed past, and some research led me to try lengthening the clip over which the title is placed, and to lengthen the title bar to match. I can read the credits now, but they finish long before the clip does, so I have a black screen and music playing for about 15 seconds. No matter how I set the lengths, the end of the scrolling ends in about half the time allotted. If the clip is set for 30 seconds, the scroll takes 15 seconds. If the clip is set for 5 seconds, the scroll takes 2.5 seconds. How do I make the title last the same amout of time as the clip?

I can. If I could only make the title longer than the clip, that would work. I can't extend the blue bar past the end of the clip. And no matter how long or short I make the clip, the title scrolls past in half the time. If it's long enough to slow it down to reading speed, that means I've got 15 or 20 seconds of black background and music going on after the credits are done.
I want to know how to make the credits last the same amount of time as the clip. Please note that extending the duration of the clip and the title does not help. The title remains visible for half of the duration of the clip, whether it's 10 seconds or 10 minutes.

How do I make scrolling credits title stop moving and leave text on screen?

Hi, I have used the scrolling credits title template to end my first FCP X video ( I'm a newbie using the trial version). I want to slow down the speed of the scrolling and then have it end with the text remaining static so that veiwers can read the credits. At the moment it goes too fast and ends before you have a chance to read the names etc. I want to leave the text stationary for a few seconds so that the contact details can be seen.
How do I do this. I have not bought Motion just yet as I am still using the Trial version. Does anyone know of a good clear online tutorial that demonstartes this?
Thanks

Create a compound clip from the credits clip. Select the clip. Position the playhead where you want it to be stationary, Shift-H to hold.
Russ

Smooth Scrolling Credits for FCP !#$#

To start, I am creating scrolling credits from scratch in Motion 2 to import into my NTSC-DV FCP5 session.
I had accomplished beautiful scrolling credits in Motion to FCP about 6 months ago and cannot for the life of me produce good looking scrolling credits again! I have gone through this forum and there are about 100 different ideas out there...export using the animation codec with "render fields" selected, simply import the Motion session into FCP and render it, use large fonts, use the "scroll up" behavior, use keyframing... I have even tried After Effects which was WAY easier than Motion but produced similar fluttering effects.
Any way I try to do it, the scrolling text always comes out in FCP after rendering (and viewing on an external monitor) with the all too common jagged scroll...like the letters are fluttering in between fields as they scroll up..
My latest atempt in Motion to create this scrolling text consists of this:
1) Open an NTSCDV session in Motion
2) Using the text tool I write in my credits in the "Inspector" under the "text" tab
3) I then appply the "scroll up" behavior to the text from the "Add Behavior/Text Animation" dropdown menu at the top of the screen.
4) The record light below the canvas is on, I goto the newly added "Scroll Up" behavior in the "Inspector" under the "Behaviors" tab and there is a keyframe already added at the beginning of the "Scroll Up" layer in the timeline. I move the "Position Offset" slider down so the beginning (top) of the text is right below the bottom of the screen.
5) I then move to the end of the "Scroll Up" layer in the timeline (which is 30 seconds long BTW), add another keyframe in the "Scroll Up" layer and slide the "Position Offset" slider so that my text has just disappeared at the top of my screen.
6) I drag the cursor through the 30 second roll in the timeline verifying that it scrolls up the way I want.
7) I ensure the project properties are set correctly before I save. This includes making sure the field order is set to "Lower" in the "General" tab, and in the "Render Settings" tab making sure the output antialiasing method is set to "Best" and that "Use dithering" IS checked. In the Motion Blur setting the samples are set to "8" and the shutter angle is set to 360.
8) I then save the project, import the project file into my FCP NTSCDV session, drag it to the timeline, render it, and playback to an external monitor.
Possible Problems:
1) I am thinking that maybe the text is scrolling up too slow and it is impossible to get clean text without the jagged/fluttering effect. As when I shorten the scroll to 20 seconds there is less of a fluttering effect (but it is impossible to read the text as it is scrolling up so fast)
2) There is some "Project Property" setting in Motion that I have messed up.
3) I should not be using the scroll up feature with keyframing but perhaps just keyframing the actual text itself to move up? (although I have tried this with worse results)
I have wasted hours trying different routes, reading the manual, searching this forum, to no avail. Who has the magic recipe I am looking for? Please help.
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Bryan,
I attempted to adjust the white level, the field order, but don't think ever got to messing around with FCP's processing settings...I am actually encoding the film right now as I was under the gun and actually found the "scroll" plugin in FCP to work just as good if not better than Motion without any tweaking so had to roll wth that. I will attempt to tweak the Motion file again though as I cannot bear sub-par credits. Will also email you the Motion file if you don't mind.

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I have added scrolling credits to a video and the scroll is not smooth. There is no stabilization or shutter roll mechanism to use with built-in, FCPX text and titles. So, how do I eliminate the shake from scrolling credits?

amee mk wrote:
i also have a problem with scrolling credits !! they are shaking very badly and i can't find solution for it it doesn't look pro at all ! i'm working on HD 1080 p footage and my project need to be done very soon if anyone have a secret knowledge how to fix it - please let me know !
What Karsten and Russ said.

Scrolling credits are unreadable when played in full screen

yet they look fine when I am typing in the info on the small screen. How can I fix this so the credit font quality is good when showing the movie in full screen?
thanks,
Charlene

I figured it out on my own.. seems that if you have too much info in the scrolling credits, it distorts itself. ARGGHH... had to delete and create a 2nd screen to keep the credits rolling.

Making scrolling credits....Need to copy kids names of a pdf.....

Hi there friends,
Ok, I have a "end of year" dance concert to be cut.
I have the program on a PDF, but I simply want to copy the names of the students off that and place into FCE to work on scrolling credits.
What is the best way to do it?? Save the document as another format??
Regards,
Chris

Find someone with a Windows system, open the PDF file there using Adobe Reader, then copy and paste the names into a plain text document. Open the text document on your Mac, then copy and paste into the text generator in FCE.
-DH

Can't get rid of the sparkle effect using LT with scrolling credits...

Hey guys...
I have not found anyone that knows how to correct the sparkle effect when using the scrolling credits. The credits will scroll up, but they all sparkle...
Does anyone know of any other program besides LT that does not do this, and is a very cool program???
Thanks guys...
Jeremy

I know a cool program, its called final cut pro. It might have come bundled with live type.
Sorry, that was in bad taste but seriously...
In FCP:
Effects-> Video Generators-> Text-> Scrolling Text.
Try it out.

FCPX: Scrolling Credits Text Color

Can anyone tell me how to change the color of text in the scrolling credits option from white to another color? I don't see an option to do this. I see an option to change ALL the text in the credits to one color, but not line by line. I only want to color the main title categories in the credits.

IMOVIE SCROLLING CREDITS AND EXPORTING TO IDVD

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I'VE HAD ONE ON ONES, GENIUS BAR, WORKSHOP AND ONLINE TECH SUPPORT. I'VE EXPORTED IN ALL FORMAT AND STILL THE SAME PROBLEM. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON HERE? HELPPPPPPPPPPPP!...LOL.

Anyone? We had to delay our rollout. I'm so bummed about this. Doesn't Apple care that I cannot have credits at the end of my movie with the latest version on iMovie? Just a scrolling white screen. It stinks. I found someone who had a workaround by chopping the credits up into 4 second intervals. It looks terrible though - way too much black space in between the sections. I just don't know what to do.
My credits total about 24 seconds and play with music. In iMovie they look fine. (Not all CAPS). Once I publish in any format to any place they turn into a solid white screen. PLEASE oh PLEASE help me. This is for WORK. Clearly I need to change applications...

YouTube cuts off scrolling credits??

Twice I have produced 2 minute videos with scrolling credits for YouTube and later found that the uploaded video ends, cleanly, without the credits. The credits were made with the standard scrolling credits template in Final Cut X and the video was exported as a master file with default settings. Maybe it would make a difference to upload dirctly to YouTube with the built-in feature, but I made the videos for work & they wanted to upload themselves onto the institutional YouTube account. Has this happened to anyone &, if so, how have you fixed or prevented it? Does YouTube have a problem reading the programming of that particular dynamic template? I have a dynamic lens flare template overlay in a couple of places and that worked fine. THANKS for any suggestions.

I had never heard of such issue before. I don't think that is common.
Are you sure the videos weren't trimmed by someone before posting to youtube?
I did a small test with 19 seconds of credits at the end and it came out correctly.
You can make a test yourself and see if the same happens.

Trouble with scrolling credits

I am creating a long list of scrolling credits (actually, staff members of a school and their accomplishments and so on at the end of a video). OK, so the FCPX scrolling credits has a title that's centered, and the text below it that's left justified and in two columns. My problem is I can't select the title and center it in the inspector without all of the other columns below it centering. I could do it before... but as I was adding something to the title, everything reverted to left justified and all the centered text went away. And now it's either one or the other but I can't have one line centered and one justified. Seems so easy but for the life of me I can't get it to work.
Any help out there? I am so frustrated by this... I tried doing another one just to see if I had just screwed up the original so badly that it wouldn't do it but the same thing happened. It's a lot of text and I don't want to retype it by hand again, it's just a lot of stuff.

make your textfield multiline either in the properties panel
or with actionscript.

Slowing scrolling credits

i'm new to the imovie program..i was wondering how i can slow down the scrolling credits..it seems like it's going way too fast..thanks..

The scrolling credits will scroll to fill the time you have set for the scrolling credits to appear - in other words, they will scroll for the length of the blue box. To make them scroll longer, you can lengthen the blue box by clicking on the right edge and dragging to the right. You can also click on the left edge and drag to the left.

Speed of scrolling credits

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