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Rolling & scrolling
One of the most common and effective techniques for presenting closing credits is the rolling
or scrolling credits. With Ulead VideoStudio, this is simply a matter of specifying a direction
and a duration for your text. After you have entered some text and inserted it onto the
Timeline, click the title clip you have created and look at the Options panel.
Title motion button
Animation
styles
Possible title animation effects
available on the Options panel.
Most of the Animation style buttons, the last twelve in fact, represent scrolling animations. It
is a little difficult to explain in words, but not hard to understand.
For example, the button at left (A.) has a box with three arrows pointing down. This
A.
represents a title that starts off of the top of the screen, scrolls downward across the
screen, and scrolls off the bottom.
The other button at left (B.) has two arrows, symbolizing motion that starts off screen
B.
on top, scrolls down, and ends in the middle of the screen. If you hold your mouse
over a Title motion icon, a short pop up message briefly describing the motion appears.
But the best way to figure out what these really do is to select the effect and use the Preview
window to see the results. As usual, you can see the results of your changes by grabbing and
dragging the Preview handle beneath the Preview window.
The speed of scrolling is directly determined by the length of the clip: very slow title anima-
tions take longer to play. So if you need a scrolling title that lasts for less than a second, the
speed of scrolling is going to necessarily be quite rapid.
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Animating titles
1. Select a title on the Timeline or create a new
one.
2. Click on the yellow Title motion button.
3. Select an Animation style from one of the
preset choices.
4. Click the Apply button on the Options panel.
Apply button.
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