Video: How to Create a Title Scroll in Final Cut Pro 5

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Creating a title scroll in Final Cut Pro 5 can really make your edited videos pop, as shown in this free video.

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JimmyT Aug 02, 2008
I think that VideoTagger would be easier for creating the scroll effect... Have you tried it?
JimmyT Aug 02, 2008
I think that VideoTagger would be easier for creating the scroll effect... Have you tried it?

Video Transcript

This is C.J. South. In this clip I am going to teach you about title scrolling. So what is a title scroll. Well if you are not familiar with the name title scroll, you've seen it at the end of every movie ever made. Basically it is just text scrolling from down to up or from up to down. So how do we access that? Well, the same way you access text. Go ahead and click on the little pop up menu on the bottom right corner of the viewer, come down to text but instead of going over text go to scrolling text. All right, now we have some scrolling text. Nothing there. Let's go to controls. If you see you have the same exact controls as you did before except there is a couple more. You have indent, gap with and fade size so we are just going to leave those blank for right now. Just go ahead and just kind of add a couple different names like John Woo and Bobby Jake and camera by CJ and Joe. Now come over to video and come down to where your in and out points are. Basically what happens is over 10 seconds of time you are going to see this scroll across and click. You can now see, okay it's moving up and if I click and just kind of hold and scrub it, you can see oh wow, that's scrolling so it's scrolling from down to up. So go ahead and do left justify. So center left instead and make it more look like actual movie credits. So director, editor and camera. Okay, good. The size is fine, yeah, yeah. Color is kosher, that's cool. And make the fade of 10 percent or 11 percent. So now what that fade does is the bottom here you can see okay, Sarah is a little bit faded out here. That is pretty nice. As it comes up, you can actually see that there is a fade. So now if you wrap that up even more, you now have an even larger fade and that makes it look really nice. As you are playing it, it comes up from the fade. So you can just plop that in at the end of any movie that you do. It just looks fantastic.

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How to Create a Title Scroll in Final Cut Pro 5

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