Here, you can define exactly where the credit roll appears on your screen. ✓ In the Position box, drag a control point at the corner of the blue box to reposition the text area. ✓ Click Background Color to choose a background color for your text, or make it transparent so the text rolls over video images. You can move boxes up and down to position them where you want. ✓ If you need more boxes, click the type of box you want more of, then click Insert A Row. You can also include dots between your left and right sub-boxes. ✓ Under the Styles tab, you can set the font styles for each individual box, so you can use different fonts, colors, sizes, and styles for each box. Here, you would enter a character name or a crew position in the left sub-box, and then the name of the actor or crew member in the right sub-box. The next several boxes are divided, with a sub-box on the left and sub-box on the right. The next box is for a subitem, so you would place section headers like “Cast” or “Executive Producers” in that box. The top box is for the main title of the project, though you can use it for anything you want. The Credits Text pane is divided into boxes, each representing a different type of text. The only limit is your imagination!Ĭredit rolls are a lot more complex than other types of text you usually have a long list of credits. You can keyframe and animate the text properties and define how they change over the time. Experiment and find a style which fits your needs. You can create a huge variety of different types of text, with different animation styles.
✓ Choose from numerous preset animation styles in the Animation drop-down menu. You can also manipulate the tracking and line spacing to change the distance between individual letters or lines of text.
If the text has a solid background color, no video will be visible under it. ✓ The Advanced controls let you set the background color, including transparency. Use the controls to define the color, position, and blur of the shadow. ✓ Under Shadow, click the Shadow Enable box to create a drop shadow. ✓ Under Outline, you can control the color and width of the text outline. However, color, outline, shadow, and alignment adjustments apply to all of the text in the event. You can also highlight different words or letters in the text and change font, font size, bold, and italic for only those words or letters, so you can create a single text event with several different styles and sizes within it. The Scale is independent of the font size, but you can also set the font size larger or smaller. ✓ Move the Scale slider to adjust the size of the text.
In the Video Media Generators window, you can change the font and font characteristics, alignment, and color. So, it’s good to check the Safe Areas and make sure your text is at least within the Action Safe area, if not the Text Safe area. And even when they don’t, you still usually don’t want your text right at the edge of the screen with no margin. Modern 16:9 displays usually do not display with overscan. So, keep text within the Title Safe area, so that it won’t only be visible, there will be a margin, and your text will be more readable. Also, with the curved shape of legacy CRT screens, some of the text may actually be cut off. If you place text at the edge of the Action Safe area, while it should be visible, it will still be right on the edge of the screen no margin, so it won’t look very good and may not be optimal for reading. While the Action Safe area represents the visible area, it’s not necessarily safe for text. The outer box is the Action Safe area anything within the box should be visible on the screen, thus any action happening should be visible even if there’s overscan. The Safe Areas overlay displays two concentric boxes. Safe Areas show you where it’s safe to assume the image is visible and thus it’s safe to place text or graphics without worrying about it being cut off when viewed. Safe Areas come from an earlier era of video, when CRT screens exhibited overscan – that is, the edges of the CRT screen were covered by the bevel, so the entire image wasn’t always visible the edges were cut off.
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