Sexy Hollywood style end credits? How?

[petelms]

Hi.

I'm trying to do End Credits for my dvd at the moment and have been using Photoshop and AE combination, but I can see a lot of flickering in my final composition on the DVD. Why is that? :huh:

So, what are the "weapons" used to create those sexy Hollywood style end credits? Anyone have some good advice on fonts that are good for end credits?

I have tried to use "reduce interlace flickering" (softness: 0.5) but with no luck...I can still see flickering...I still have to try to use even more softness...but I think it´s getting too soft soon...

Is it only way to find some bold font and try to do it with that or is there some other tricks?

How on earth they do it? I'm just watching "The Passion of the Christ" end credits and I can hardly see any flickering...:huh:

Thanks! :dankk2:

 

[Matt Grunau]

If you are creating the scrolling text by animating in AE, Reduce Interlace Flicker is not the right way to go, since you aren't working with interlaced footage, and since it seems to be a simple blur type of effect.

Usually, this is a problem with how many pixels per frame your text is moving. The brightness of the text is a factor also, as can be its opacity. I usually go with white text at R200, G200, B200 for white. If it's over footage, take the opacity down to 80-90% Adding motion blur can help, as can adding s duplicate layer of the text and putting a Fast Blur on it of 1 will soften it.

Mostly, it's the speed the text scrolls which will give nasty results, as will overly bright colors. Threre's a tutorial floating out there that had a breakdown of scrol times, but I cant find it. I seem to remember something on the order of making sure your text moved 2 pixels per frame. There was an importance to the amount of pixels per frame to have your text move, but I can't find the tutorial. Do a google and you'll find something.

Here is an AE project example:

http://www.paramm.com/ae.zip


This is pretty good, and you will get an idea. Different fonts also have an effect. This font, Engravers Gothic, still gets a little flikery where Arial doesn't. Play with the opacity settings, the blur settings, and the length of the comp. Even this one has a slight "rolling" across the text as it moves upwards, but I'm in the ballpark with it, and not in the mood to crunch numbers. :beer:

I don't have Illustrator, but saving as an .eps from illustrator can work, since AE is working with vectored text. That can also clean things up.

Of course, you could do the easy thing of just having them fade in and out. . . .

 

[petelms]

Matt! Thanks for info, I got them working finally. You were so right, it is the speed of the text which is the problem.

Here's the mathematics, that I found, for the text layer:

for pal: 50, 100, .... px/sec

for ntsc: 59.94, 179.82,... px/sec

y pos @ frame 0 = 0 px
y pos @ frame 1000 = 4000 px (or multiples of that)

Thanks, Matt, now they look so "sexy", heh! :dankk2: I'm so happy with the results. It even works with my original font now.