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Hey everybody! Welcome into this Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial, brought to you,
as always, by tutvid.com. My name is Nathaniel Dodson, and today, we're going
to take a quick look at creating simple scrolling credits for the end of your film,
your movie, your video production. Pretty easy to do here in Premiere Pro. I did
an older tutorial on it where we use the legacy titler in Adobe Premiere Pro.
But now, in the newer version of Premiere Pro, there's actually a bunch of different
ways we can do it. I'm going to show you three ways. I think you're really going to
enjoy it. Let's jump into this tutorial right away, and get this thing started. Well,
alrighty, here we are in Adobe Premiere Pro. And we're going to take a look at
some rolling credits. So let's get started with the essential graphics panel first,
up here under window, we have essential graphics. Now, this is newer to
Photoshop CC, I think, 2017, I wanna say. Something like that. But if you don't
have essential graphics, don't worry, you just don't have it. But if you do, you've
got it. I guess that's a little bit of understatement, but you get what I'm saying.
Use the legacy titler, or check out my other tutorial on scrolling credits, if you don't
have the essential graphics. Now, here in essential graphics, we actually have an
entire folder. This is default. It comes with Premiere Pro, called credits. And
I feel a little dumb even showing it, because it's pretty straightforward. But,
you know what? I'd be remiss if I didn't show it. Because it is that straightforward.
I'm going to go with the bold credits here, going to drag it, drop it on my timeline,
here above "tat guy." And it's going to say, look, this project uses fonts that are
not currently available on this computer, font substitution will occur. I'm going
to say, okay, no worries, that's fine. I'm going to go on and probably change
the fonts anyway. I'm going to close essential graphics for a second, because
I'm actually going to drag this up one layer. And because we want to create
basically, we want to make the text easy to read over the video, and we're
going to do that, by, over here in our projects bin, we are going to create
something new. We're going to hit the new item tab, or button here. And we're
going to choose a color matte. And I'm going to say, everything's fine with
that. I'm going to go with solid black, hit OK. And I can name it whatever I want,
in fact, I'm going to name it "overlay," because that's what it is. And here
is "overlay." I'm going to drag overlay out and place it on my timeline above
"tat guy," and I'm going to stretch it out to be as long as "tat guy" is. Wow,
look at those - look at that font for our credits. We're going to change that,
though. Right now, I'm worried about the overlay. And I still want to be able to see the
"tat guy" video behind it. So, I'm going to select the overlay track, you can see,
well, I'm actually selecting the overlay object. And I'm just going to reduce
the opacity. I'm going to just shut off the animation aspect of this, because
I want to change the opacity for the entire thing. Don't change. Let's go like
75%, see what that looks like. Maybe make it a little darker, let's go like 85.
I think 85 will work for us. Let's work with these credits now that we have this
overlay. So I'm going to select company presents, and you can see here in
effect controls, we have a bunch of stuff that comes up. I think it will be
easier here if we bring back to essential graphics panel, and we work here
under the edit option. So right there, we have edit in essential graphics.
Because what we can do, is we can select all of these layers of text; I'm
holding down SHIFT, selecting all of them. And I don't want to use this
Paul Maul-bizarro looking typeface. I do know I have Bebas on my computer,
which is right - hey, where did it go? There it is, right there. Which it was
saying that I didn't have, but I do. And I'm going to set to probably bold,
something like that. And you can see, we have everything as this nice, bold
effect. If I deselect, you can see, that's kind of a cool, little block of credits,
right? And at that point, you would go in, and you would choose layer
by layer here. Company presents, and this could be - you know, you click
out here, or I should say, double click out here. And then you can double
click on an individual word if you want. You can say "my company presents,"
or, you know, whatever. "Blue hen," or whatever the name of your company
is, you can select that and type in whatever you like for all of these different
lines of text, and build out the credits you want. Now, here's the important
thing about this - so you have all these different things that you can mess
around with in terms of alignment and sizing and stuff like that. Appearance,
you can change the color. Maybe you don't want it to be white, maybe
you want it to be something else. Or you want this to be 100%, not 87% in terms
of your opacity. But most importantly here, if we just come up here, you can
see we have a piece of text selected. If I just click in here to deselect that, I have
this option here... Intro, and outro, duration, but also the option to roll. So,
I'm going to say, yeah, let's roll this. We're just going to start our animation on
screen, and just end it off screen. You can play with your pre and post roll, and
easing in and easing out, to get something exactly like you would want. But
basically, it's going to begin wherever we have the start of our text object,
or our credits text object. And it will start off screen, and it will take the duration
of that object and make sure that it's ending off screen. So, if you want it
to travel a little bit more slowly, well, simply stretch that text object out.
Maybe something like that. And I can go ahead and play through this.
We can see, the credits are just going to scroll up nice and slowly. Now, this
process can be a little glitchy, sometimes you'll begin playing and the credits
just wont be there. You can see here this time, for some reason they're
not showing up. I don't know if that's a Premiere Pro bug, and then, you can
see as soon as I click on it, it shows up. And I don't know, I don't quite know
what's going on there, but you do have these credits built in. And you can
mess around with them, and you can customize them quite a bit, and it's
just a nice, quick and easy, starting point for you. I'm going to delete these
credits, and I am going to show you how to export some credits from Photoshop
and bring them over here into Premiere, as well, if you prefer doing it that
way. So, I have all these credits that I've written down in this rich text format,
where it's basically directed by, written by, produced by, all that. And then the
associated names that would go. It was directed by Darlena Strata, and written
by Casey Simpson, and so on and so forth. So all of that, all this information.
And what I've done, is I've gone over to Photoshop, and I've laid it out in this
Photoshop document. Now, I will show - I'll do a tutorial at some point, on how
to just put together a quick credits package, and do all the alignment and stuff
in Photoshop. But for now, I'm just going to show you how to export the
proper file type, and get it over into Premiere, so you can use it. So, I have all
of these layers, they're all text layers here. I don't want the black background
though, I want that text to show up over my video. Now, the first thing is,
I created a document, if I go up to Image>Image Size, the document is
1920 wide, the height doesn't matter, because we're going to scroll it,
we're going to animate it by. The width, you want it to be the width of your
frame. So if you're working with 2560x1440 video, you want this to be
2560 pixels wide. But we're working with a video that's 1920x1080, so that's
first and foremost. Then what I'll do is I'll just select all the text by SHIFT
clicking, and you know, select the bottom layer, select the top layer. And I'm
going to group this. So I'm going to hit CMD/CTRL+G to group it. I'll just name
this "credits," or something. And check this out, we can just right click on the
layer group and choose to export this as. And when we do this, we're going to
get something like this, where it's just solid white. And what's happening is,
Photoshop is saying, look, you want to export this as a jpeg. Right here, jpeg.
And you've got this transparent background, because we're not exporting
the black background. The default for a background for jpeg, because you
can't get transparency in a jpeg, is white. So we would just be getting a solid
white image. So that's no good, obviously. We want a png. And a png, we can
tick on, yeah, give us some transparency. You can see if I zoom in, there's
text there. It's difficult to read over the transparent checkerboard background.
But once it's over our darkened video, it's going to be easy to read. Now,
we have a problem here. Because the width is only 1521. We want this to be
1920, just so there's no questions, no thought, no worry, no - no nothing,
if I can speak grammatically incorrectly for a moment - when it comes time
to drag this into our video. How do we do that? Well, there's a little workaround
here. And maybe there's a better way to do this, but this is the way I've always
done it. You can just slap a layer mask on the layer or layer group, by hitting
this new layer mask button. And now, when I export this, it's going to maintain
the original file width and everything. I need to go back and say, give me that
png format. There it is, 1920x5000 pixels. And I can just export this, and I'll
just save it as credits.png in the folder, save that, let it go. And I'll jump back
over to Premiere. And here from Premiere, I should jump out to the finder,
I guess. And there's my credits.png file, so I'll drag that, I'll drop it here in my
project bin. And this is pretty easy, right? We just drag this out and drop it
on our timeline, like so. We could maybe stretch it out to about, right there.
And what I want do here, is create a simple animation where this begins,
and scrolls its way up. So, what I'm going to do is use positioning here and
just push this way down. I want to push it down until it's off screen. So
something like that. So there I am, about 3596 pixels, it'll be, you know,
just all depends on the length of your image. This is going to be different
for everyone. I'm going to hit the little stopwatch here to begin animating.
Then I'll just bring this basically all the way to the end, maybe I'll stop right
before the end. And I'm just going to scroll the text up, so I'm just going to
keep going until all the text has passed me by and it's gone off the top of
the screen. Just like that. And now, if I play through this, we can see, we
just have our credits. They're just rolling right on by. And they're just going
to keep on flowing as our video in the back just fades to black. And it's just a
nice, quick and easy way. Most of the time for this is taken up creating
the layout you want in Photoshop. But once you've got it, you've got it. So,
I'm going to select that, I'm going to delete that. And last but not least, we're
going to do our own custom layout, using essential graphics again. But really,
it begins here with the text tool. So, I'm going to grab the text tool, and
actually, before I do anything with the text tool, let's copy our first block of
text here. And I'm going to go just with these names here, I'm going to keep
it simple, so I'm going to select that grouping of names. And then I'm going
to click out here, maybe drag out a text box like that. And I'm going to say,
"production:" And then I'm going to paste all the names in, just like that.
Alright, and what I can do here, actually, I probably should have - undo, I don't
want to add that second text field. What I think I want to do here is just
crunch this text field down a little bit maybe. Just kind of pinch it in around
our text a little bit, like that. Alright, so I'll begin this text, maybe somewhere
right around there. That looks good. And you can see, over here in effect
controls, we have a text layer that's been created. I'm going to go back out to
my text edit, and I'm going to grab the next chunk of people. Oh no, not that.
We want the names. I'm just going to go with like, hey, this is the cast, right?
So, we'll drag out another text field. I'm going to say, the cast, right? So it's
just a matter of, if you know how to copy and paste, you're going to be just
fine when it comes to this step. And you know, make sure that we get all
of the names here. I'll drag out the text field, until I have all the names.
Something like that. And then this text field, I'm going to offset it. I'm going
to place it down here. Maybe the idea would be the second last name of the
text block before, aligns with the heading for the next row of credits, or
something like that. I think we'll actually randomize it a little bit. I'm just going
to pinch this in here on the right. I'll just have to make sure that I'm not
cutting off any text as it goes down a little bit further. Maybe I'll stretch it out
a little bit, just to be safe. I'm going to jump back out to my text file here,
and we will go with - I'm just going to select this camera and just all of that,
we have all the names and everything baked in. So I'm just going to live with
that, that's fine. Again, if you're doing it for your film, you may want to be
a little bit more particular, and hey, more power to you if you do that.
Alright, so there's camera, director of photography, so on and so forth,
what I may do here, is select all this text. And just size it down a little bit.
I selected the wrong text field there. Here we go, this is the one, you can
see, text. It says camera, director of photography, so on and so forth.
I am going to size the text down in here a little bit. I'm going to scroll down
here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to select the skin, we're going to
select the text that we want to size down. And we will go ahead and size
this down, there we go. Something like that. That's what I want. I'm going
to keep going until it's all - it all kind of fits within our box there. We go
something like that is going to work for us. And I am going to grab my
normal selection tool. I'm going to just, you know, bump this up. And again,
this is all just - have a little bit of fun with it. Obviously, we're breaking
our rule here in terms of lining things up, because I'm starting to think
maybe we'll do more of just a totally random layout. And that's fine too.
I'm going to go back to my text edit, I'm going to grab my last couple bits
of text. And I'm just going to build this out really quickly here, you can see
I've sped the video up. No worries, though, you're not missing anything.
You're able to see what I'm doing, and I've already explained everything
that needs to be explained, and we'll be back at the rest of what we're
creating here in just a moment. So I think we'll stop there, we've got enough
credits built in, right? And we have a few different layers of text. And
maybe in your real project, you don't want to make anybody's name
necessarily smaller, because maybe it'll make them feel like, hey, but I did
stuff too, right? Which they did, but we're just making our layout here.
Alright, so here's where the magic happens with regard to this effect, we can
once again go window, open up essential graphics here. I'm going to go
to my edit panel. I have the object selected on my timeline, this is that text
object. I can stretch it out as long as I want, let's say. Maybe I won't go
quite that far. That's a little obscene. I'm just going to go to like here. And,
if we don't have any layers selected we can roll this entire grouping of
graphics that we just created. So I can just say, hey look, roll! Start off
screen, end off screen, and let's check to see what we got!
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So, it's pretty cool. And it's just going to, obviously, roll right on through.
And again, if you wanted to make it a little bit slower, you could stretch the
object out. And you could add more layers, and layers, and layers of text.
And by the way, if you do prefer the old titler, you can always go File>New,
and choose the legacy title option. And you can bring that up and work with
that. But this new text tool makes it really, really easy to go in and quickly
tweak and adjust, and build out a nice, little set of credits for the end of your
video project. All done right here in Premiere Pro, with the exception of the
one, where we jumped over into Photoshop. But, pretty much, all done
right here in Adobe Premiere Pro. So, there you have it. When you're looking
to add some creative, or nice, little credits to your film project, it's really
not that bad. A bunch of different ways you can do it, I hope you enjoy this
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Nathaniel Dodson, tutvid.com, I'll catch you in the next one.