How to Create a Rolling Title in Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere Pro has a versatile Title Creation tool that allows you to make original, individualized titles to enhance your project. “Titles” are anything you want to include in your video project, such as the names of your actors and crew, or the title of the movie. Still or static titles with fonts, graphics, and logos are easy to make. In fact, it is also possible to create a “rolling title” like the kind you see at the end of a movie. You can use the Premiere Pro Title editor tool to create smooth, professional-looking titles that roll vertically up your screen.

Things You'll Need

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Digitized video footage

Instructions

1. Create a new rolling title by going to the "Title Menu", and then "New Title". Next, choose "Default Roll".

2. Create or type your text, or graphic elements, if you are using them, in the background of the rolling credits. When you are ready to move on, make sure to save the title.

3. To create rolling credits, you must create a long text box using the "Area Type" tool. Click on the "Area Type" tool, and then click in the frame of the title. Drag down as long as you will need to create a long, vertical shaped box.

4. Use the Title editing panel scroll bar to see the offscreen areas of the title you are working on. This is important to keep in mind, because when you add your title to the video sequence, these areas will roll into view.

5. Use the alignment, tabs, justification or distribution tools to make any necessary formatting changes. Type in all of your text you want to scroll in the title. Make any changes needed to font and size.

6. Go back up to your "Title Menu" at the top of your workspace, and choose "Roll/Crawl" options. Here is where you can specify the time options for “Roll”. Make sure the title type of “roll” is selected. You can choose to have titles start and/or end off the screen. The "Ease-in and Ease-out" option will allow your title to start slower at the beginning, and then slow down at the end. Click "Okay" when finished.

Tips & Warnings

• Note that the length of time the title will be over your footage is determined in the Timeline by the length of the title. The longer the title clip length, the slower the movement of your roll will be.