End Credits

MattC

Member Joined: Jun 03, 2016 12:12 Messages: 102 Offline

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Jun 23, 2016 16:16

Hi,

I'm after a way of producing somthing like the (low res) end credit test footage attached. Notice a couple of thing:

The player list and the musician list have their characters and names lined up with the center space - this is not line centred.

Sound, lighting, etc, are all fully centred but scroll with the list above. It is not in a seperate text box.

The way this vid is achieved is by using non-proportional text and adding spaces to align the words, etc. Unfortunately, where the shorter lines have not got the appropriate number of characters, they look a little offset. This vid is created in Win10's Movie Maker, because I can't seem to reproduce anything like it in PDR. Is there a template that allows me to do this?

Matt

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PDR14; Win10-x64; i7-6700; 3.4GHz; 16GB RAM; plenty of HDD space; AMD Radeon R5 330.

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Jun 23, 2016 17:56

Hi Matt -

It's right under your nose!

In the Titles room, under Scroll there's a template called Ending Credits 001. That's the one I used in the attached project.

Like you, I had to type a lot of spaces to get things lined up.

It's just a fact of life that if you want that central space centred the whole line of text cannot be (unless the words on each side are of equal length).

Cheers - Tony

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MattC

Member Joined: Jun 03, 2016 12:12 Messages: 102 Offline

Jun 24, 2016 14:08

Thanks Tony,

I'm sure I looked into this one, and found there was a problem with it, but for the life of me, I cannot find what it was.

Consolas is a nice font that I chose for the credits, but it wasn't my first choice. What I had originally decided on was a proportional font, and that doesn't always work by adding space buffering. I would say that the majority of end credits would be something in the order of what you and I have produced here. So I'm amazed that Cyberlink hasn't produced a method that can do it easily.

Matt .
PDR14; Win10-x64; i7-6700; 3.4GHz; 16GB RAM; plenty of HDD space; AMD Radeon R5 330.

fishtop_records

Newbie Location: Wayne, PA Joined: May 12, 2016 02:02 Messages: 39 Offline

Jun 25, 2016 23:52

Quote: It's right under your nose!

In the Titles room, under Scroll there's a template called Ending Credits 001. That's the one I used in the attached project.

I must be doing something wrong. I dont' have a Scroll in my Titles room.

I don't have much in it. I have two "custom" templates that I created (and disklike a lot) two "Downloaded"
nothing in "3D", One in 3D-like" and 4 in General.

That always seemed to be too few, most other video editing programs that I've tried/used had a bunch of standard/bundled templates.

What do I need to do to populate the Titles room?

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Jun 26, 2016 12:21

Hi,
Check your purchase email. You will find the program download and Content packs links. You may already have downloaded and so all you need do is, install the Content pack(s) which came with your purchased version of PowerDirector.

Contact online support if you failed to download the Content pack and provide proof of purchase (date/order number). They may offer you a link.

Dafydd

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The Shadowman

Senior Contributor Location: UK Joined: Dec 15, 2014 13:06 Messages: 1831 Offline

Jun 26, 2016 13:08

Fishtop

In the Title Room select "ALL Content" at the top. See if that does the job for you.

Robert Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

fishtop_records

Newbie Location: Wayne, PA Joined: May 12, 2016 02:02 Messages: 39 Offline

Jun 26, 2016 13:16

Dafydd

I completely missed those content links. Downloading now. I expect it will fix all.

Thanks
Pat