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need rich Credits software
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EdwardMartinIII
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MonkeyDog,
For my end scrolling credits, I usually build an image in Photoshop, 720 pixels wide and 3900 pixels high. I use Word to type and edit my credits and when I'm happy with them, I paste them into the Photoshop image. This step usually requires a lot of noodling, so I try to do it as few times as possible. Then, I export it as a PCT. Then I place it on the timeline. Then I use Image Pan to move a 720 x 480 frame from the top to the bottom. Oh, and I change the duration to whatever I need, say five minutes. The current feature project has a seven-minute end credit sequence, but some of those are one-shot title-card type images:
For some credits, such as Director, Producer, etc., I'll use single cards, appearing in front of the rolling credits. Those single cards again are PCT files (720 x 480) that I made in Photoshop. I put them into the superimposition channels so I can fade them in and out of the background.
I use PCT because it allows me to include an alpha channel in the image. I tell Premiere to key transparency from the alpha channel and then my credits fade and roll on whatever background I feel like making. In the most recent movie, this is a slowly moving star-filed with wisps of multicolored gas and occasional meteors streaking through.
Hope that helps!
Good luck!
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Edward
"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
For my end scrolling credits, I usually build an image in Photoshop, 720 pixels wide and 3900 pixels high. I use Word to type and edit my credits and when I'm happy with them, I paste them into the Photoshop image. This step usually requires a lot of noodling, so I try to do it as few times as possible. Then, I export it as a PCT. Then I place it on the timeline. Then I use Image Pan to move a 720 x 480 frame from the top to the bottom. Oh, and I change the duration to whatever I need, say five minutes. The current feature project has a seven-minute end credit sequence, but some of those are one-shot title-card type images:
For some credits, such as Director, Producer, etc., I'll use single cards, appearing in front of the rolling credits. Those single cards again are PCT files (720 x 480) that I made in Photoshop. I put them into the superimposition channels so I can fade them in and out of the background.
I use PCT because it allows me to include an alpha channel in the image. I tell Premiere to key transparency from the alpha channel and then my credits fade and roll on whatever background I feel like making. In the most recent movie, this is a slowly moving star-filed with wisps of multicolored gas and occasional meteors streaking through.
Hope that helps!
Good luck!
Edward "Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
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