Adjust Scrolling Credits?

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Adjust Scrolling Credits?

In the predefined title called Scrolling Credits, there are two columns: on the left is the subject and on the right is the information. The problem is, the title gives too much room for the subject and not enough for the description. Worse, it will look fine in edit mode but as soon as I click out of edit mode the information rewraps to the next line and doesn't look good. I could make all the text smaller, but better would be to be able to adjust the column width so that the subject is a little narrower and there's a little more room for the information.

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 3, 2022 6:34 AM

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Rich839

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Jul 3, 2022 10:20 AM in response to Timothy Arends1

Hi, Timothy,

The Scrolling Credits title can be frustrating to work with.

Try opening the title template so everything is in blue. Put your cursor at the beginning of the word "Name" in the first text entry. Press Delete on your keyboard to shift the first line to the left margin. Then type in your text. When you get to the word "Marine", hold down the Option key and press Return on your keyboard. Tap the space bar to movie the cursor to the right so that it is under the word "Ceremonial". Then type in the word "Band". It should look like this:

The trick is to hit Option-Return when you get to the place in the line where it is about to wrap. That way you can prevent the wrap and use the spacer bar to move the next word to the position that you want.

You could also try reducing the text size to see if that results in being able to fit the word without wrapping.

-- Rich

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