How to Make End Credits in Final Cut Pro
After you’ve shot a movie and started working with the footage in Final Cut Pro, you’ll want to list everyone who contributed to the movie in the end credits. Final Cut Pro includes a text feature to generate end credits that you can superimpose over the final footage of your movie.
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Instructions
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Launch Final Cut Pro and open the movie project.
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Click the playhead in the movie’s timeline and drag it to the point where you want the end credits to begin.
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Click the “Titles” button. The Titles Browser appears, with a variety of title templates for end credit styles. In Final Cut Pro, a title exists in its own movie clip, which is superimposed above the footage where you insert it.
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Double-click a title to connect it to the movie clip you selected in the timeline. This causes the titles clip to appear above your movie footage with scrolling text. Drag the edge of the titles clip to the right to make it longer or to the left to shorten it. The longer the titles clip, the more slowly the text will crawl. The shorter the clip, the more quickly the credits will crawl.
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Double-click the title’s placeholder text to select it, then begin typing your end credits. If you want the character’s name separated from the actor’s name with a space, type an asterisk between the two names. Final Cut Pro takes the asterisk and turns it into a space so that the actor names are separated from the character names with a central gutter. Copy and paste the text from a word processing document if you already have them typed and formatted.
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Click the title text box and drag it to a new position in the frame.
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Click the title text box to change the text style. Click “Window” from the Final Cut Pro menu, then click “Show Inspector.” Click the “Title” button at the top of the Inspector pane. Click the settings to adjust the title size, color or font.
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