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Creating Dynamic Titles

LESSON 7

Making text roll and crawl: Lesson 7-5

Using the Titler you can make rolling text for opening and closing credits and crawling

text for items like headline bulletins.

Adobe Certi ed Expert exam objective

Describe the process required to create rolling or crawling titles.

1 Select Title > New Title > Default Roll.

2 Name it Rolling Credits and click OK.

3 Type in text.

Create placeholder credits as in the  gure on the next page, pressing enter a er each

line. Input enough text to more than  ll the screen vertically.

Note: With Rolling Text selected the Titler automatically adds a scroll bar along the right

side that enables you to view your text as it runs o the bottom of the screen. If you select

the Crawl option, that scrollbar will appear at the bottom to enable you to view text

running o the right or le edge of the window.

Roll/Crawl Options

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4 Click the Roll/Crawl Options button (highlighted in the previous  gure).

You have the following options (shown in the next  gure):

• Start O Screen—Choose whether the credits start completely o the screen and

roll on, or begin with the uppermost text item at the top or side of the screen.

• End O Screen—Indicates whether the credits roll completely o the screen.

• Pre-Roll—Specify the number of frames before the  rst words appear on screen.

• Ease-In—Number of frames before the  rst words appear.

• Ease-Out—Frames to slow down the roll or crawl at its end.

• Post-Roll— e number of frames that play a er the roll or crawl ends.

• Crawl Le , Crawl Right— e Crawl direction (Rolling text always moves up

the screen).

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5 Check Start O Screen, End O Screen, and type in 5 frames each for Ease-In and

Ease-Out.

6 Close the Titler.

7 Drag your newly created Rolling Credits to the Video 2 track of the Timeline

above the video clip (if another title is there, drag this one directly on top of it to do an

overlay edit).

Note:  e default length of rolling or crawling credits is 5 seconds. If you change the length

of the credits clip, that changes the speed. A longer clip length means slower rolling credits.

8 Press the spacebar to view your rolling credits.

Note: If you’re having trouble with Rolling or Crawling text, open Lesson 7-5 Rolling

Credits in the Titler or drag it from the Project panel to the Timeline.