iMovie Credits

Try making two titles with half the text each. The Scrolling Block is troublesome as the preview never reflects the rendered title. You have to resort to trial-and-error.

If you find that Lennart's suggestions don't help you might try Rolling Credits.
Rolling Credits lets you specify the size and font in your credits. In fact you can freely mix sizes, fonts and colors, add images that scroll with the text etc. The DV file created can be imported into iMovie and accurately represents your choices.

http://www.rqs.ca

Cheers,
David

Disclaimer: I may benefit from posts like this as I am the author the RollingCredits.

PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz 1GB / Power Mac G4 733 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hello Stephannie:

Lennart has given you a great suggestion that works very well. But i must admit that Mr. Rice has created a pretty sweet program in Rolling Credits-I love it.

Just my 2 cents though 😉

Merry Christmas to all!
Sue

david
how long is the demo good for?
I'm thinking of using it for a oral history project.
Voice with text over black.
My grandfather's oral history
2 hours long.
I was going to use QT Pro. with Text Edit
Everything else I used – all the titles in iMovie
Photoshop -Word - imports turned out blurry

Hi, the Rolling Credits demo does not expire but has a watermark on the output. When the app is registered, it no longer puts a watermark on the output.

Hope this clears things up.

Cheers,
David

PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz 1GB / Power Mac G4 733 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

David'
I just downloaded your RollingCredits demo,
It tells me to use QT Pro-

see below from your RollingCredits Tutorial 1.2
"You may or may not be aware that iMovie has a limit of two gigabytes, or 9 minutes and 28 seconds on the size of file it can import. That's a little more than 17,000 RollingCredits frames. RollingCredits is quite capable of making a much longer movie, though we would seriously advise you to think about the effect such a long credit list would have on your audience. Movies longer than 9:28 must be split into shorter segments before they may be imported into iMovie. You can accomplish this using Quicktime Pro, available from Apple®. Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express have no such limitation."

Hi Woodie:

The 2 GB file limit was for versions of iMovie before iMovie HD (iMovie 5). The current version of iMovie does not have the file size limitation.

The work around mentioned is if you are using iMovie 4 or earlier AND you are creating a very long credit crawl, i.e. longer than 9 minutes and 28 seconds.

Note the suggestion that perhaps you shouldn't subject your viewers to such a long list of credits...but if you must then QT Pro can help you separate the long RC file into chunks that iMovie 4 and earlier need for importing.

I will update the Tutorial to reflect the fact that this is not necessary in iMovie 5.

Hope that clears things up, and may I wish everyone a very Happy New Year.

Cheers,
David

PS: If you need RC support you can get in touch, off list, by using my email address. (Click on my name at the top left of this message).

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