Creating rolling and crawling text

Creating Titles > Creating rolling and crawling text

You can make text roll (move vertically up or down across the screen) or crawl (move horizontally left or right).

When you add the title to a program, the speed of moving text is determined by the duration you specify for the title in the Timeline. For example, if you originally specified a duration of 20 seconds for a rolling title, and then you change the duration to ten seconds, the title must roll twice as fast to move the same number of lines across the screen in half the time.

To create rolling or crawling type:

1 Select the rolling title tool ().

2 Drag to specify the size of the text object that will contain the rolling title.

Dragging the rolling title tool (left) creates an empty rolling title text object (right).

3 Type the text you want in the title.

Note: To make the text roll or crawl, you must type enough text to overfill the text box. If you don't have enough text, overfill the box using blank spaces. To create blank spaces for rolling text, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS). To create blank spaces for crawling text, press the spacebar.

4 With the rolling title still selected, choose Title > Rolling Title Options.

5 In the Direction section, select the direction in which you want the type to move.

6 Select Enable Special Timings if you want more control over rolling or crawling motion. Then specify the following values as needed and click OK:

For Pre Roll, specify how many frames you want to appear motionless (starting with the title clip In point to the frame in which the title starts moving).

For Ramp Up, specify how many frames the clip should use to accelerate to normal speed. Type 0 (zero) to start moving the title at normal speed. To accelerate more gradually, specify more frames.

For Ramp Down, specify how many frames the clip should use to decelerate to a halt. For faster deceleration, specify fewer frames. Type 0 (zero) to stop the title immediately. To decelerate more gradually, specify more frames.

For Post Roll, specify how many frames you want the title to appear motionless (starting with the frame in which the title stops to the title Out point).

To preview rolling or crawling type:

Drag the slider at the bottom left corner of the Title window. Premiere plays back all rolling or crawling text objects in the Title window. If you have imported a background frame (see Creating and setting up a new title), Premiere uses the clip containing the background frame as the duration for the rolling or crawling type, and plays it along with the type.

Note: This slider does not preview special timings. Special timings depend on the clip duration in frames, which is determined by the Timeline. To preview special timings, add the title to a project Timeline (see Adding a title to a project) and preview the Timeline.

Creating Titles > Creating rolling and crawling text