In this tutorial I'll teach you how to create the classic Star Wars intro
scrolling text scroll for your video projects in VideoStudio using your own
text. Before we get started, if you're watching this video on YouTube you'll
find a link in the description below that will take you to our tutorial page
on the Discovery Center. Here you can download a written copy of this tutorial
to follow along. Let's get started. I have VideoStudio opened up under the Edit
tab. I'm going to drag the starry sky background image I want to use onto the
Video track on my timeline. Now click on the Title icon,
then click on the fifth title in the first row. If you click on it you'll see
in the preview pane how the text scrolls up from the bottom.
Drag this title from the library on to the title track on your timeline.
I recommend typing out the text you want to use in advance in a simple text
editor like Notepad so that you can easily copy and paste it into VideoStudio.
The reason for this is that it will be difficult to edit the text in
VideoStudio since the complete text will be larger than the box we see on
screen. So I'm going to open up the text I have typed out in Notepad then click
Edit > Select All. Then right-click on the text and select
Copy (or use Ctrl +C). Now go back to VideoStudio and
double-click on the Title track on the timeline. Then double-click on the text
on the preview pane and click and drag to select all the pre-existing text
and then click the Delete key on your keyboard to erase it. Hold down Ctrl
on your keyboard and press V to paste your text onto the screen.
Now you can make any font customizations that you want. I'm going to change the
font type to Franklin Gothic medium, which more closely matches the original
Star Wars intro font and I'm also going to adjust my font size to 60. Now we can
click on the Align Center button to align our text into the middle of the
window. Then click on the color icon and go to Corel color picker and we'll
select a darker shade of yellow to match the color from the original Star Wars movie.
Then click OK. Now let's drag our
playhead to the beginning and press play to preview what our intro looks like.
The text is scrolling too fast for my liking so I'm going to click on the Title track
on my timeline then hover my mouse to the end until this arrow icon pops up.
Then click and drag to extend the duration of the text to around 25 seconds.
You can adjust the duration length to be
shorter or longer, depending on the length of your text.
Now let's click on the background image on the Video track and again hover
our mouse to the edge until the arrow icon pops up to click and extend the
image to last as long as the text does. Again I'll preview this and now I'm
happy with the speed of the text crawl. So now we need to customize the
perspective of this text crawl so it has the same style as a Star Wars intro.
We'll right-click on the Title track on the timeline and select Motion Options >
Customize Motion. Now drag the playhead arrow on the timeline until you can see
the text so we'll be able to adjust what the font perspective looks like.
Right-click on the preview pane and select Show Gridlines and click OK.
This will help us create an even perspective. Now click on the green node on the
preview pane on the edge of the text box and drag it inwards a few centimeters.
We're going to create a trapezoid shape with the green nodes on both sides of
the text.
Now I'm going to type in - 60 under the X rotation level
and then adjust the yellow square to increase the size of the font
and place it further below so that the text will scroll directly from the
bottom off-screen. Once you've adjusted the settings it's a very important step
to right-click on the keyframe you've just created and select Copy and Paste To All
so that these settings will be copied throughout the entire intro. Now select
OK and if we preview our video you'll see we have created a cool scrolling
text scroll that looks just like the intros in the Star Wars films. If you're
watching this video on YouTube, you'll find a link in the description below
that will take you to our tutorial page on the Discovery Center. Here you can
download a written copy of this tutorial to follow along and find other helpful
tutorials for VideoStudio.