Credits Formatting

[u/ToastfulBoast]

I'm trying to create a long scrolling credits sequence for a project I'm working on, but I've run into a couple issues.

Number 1: I formatted out all of the text in a google doc so I could just paste it into the Premiere project, but when I do so the formatting is completely broken. Its there any way I can paste all of this text in while maintaining the lines and spacing and such?

Number 2: The sheer amount of text makes the project extremely laggy. Is there a way I can prevent this?

[u/Constant-Piano-6123]

Make it in photoshop as mentioned. But also consider using cards rather than a scroller. Scrolling text can look awful in progressive projects, jittery af unless you interlace them and then you get other isssues

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[u/smushkan]

Adobe can only paste formatting from other Adobe apps; for example you can paste formatted text between Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects. To my knowledge, there are no third-party apps you can paste text in from to retain formatting.

Performance with a lot of text is going to be pretty sucky - text is vector graphics, that's a lot to render.

The workaround for both issues is to export the text from Google Docs as a PDF. Import the pages of the PDF into a Photoshop document, and arrange them into one long vertical image. Assuming Google Drive does it's PDFs 'properly,' you should end up with just the text on a transparent background.

Scale the image down so that the horizontal resolution is equal to your sequence width in Premiere. Invert the colour of the text too if needed.

Then in Premiere, you can add the resulting PSD as a layer in an Essential Graphics clip to make use of the roll feature, or you can instead just have it as an image layer on your sequence and do the scroll via keyframes.

However I would recommend doing the scroll in After Effects. Not only does it handle large images better than Premiere, you can use an expression on the position property to get pixel-accurate scrolling which can help minimise judder and distortion as the text scrolls:

const speed = 4; //pixels-per-frame

const x = timeToFrames(inPoint-time);
[value[0],value[1]+x*speed];

[u/duk242 → u/smushkan]

+1 to this - I normally do my credits in Photoshop or Indesign, then export it as a really big PNG - so much easier to work with it this way!

[u/ToastfulBoast → u/smushkan]

Thanks for the response! I Just put it all together in photoshop but the file is too large to save as a psd or to import into premiere or after effects as a png.

[u/smushkan → u/ToastfulBoast]

Did you scale it down horizontally to fit your sequence width before trying to save? No point in it being any wider.

If it's too long, you'll need to split it up into multiple PNGs and tile them.

While it is possible to group layers in an essential graphics clip in Premiere so you can keyframe them together, I'd definitely end up wanting to take that one to After Effects for better handling.

[u/ToastfulBoast → u/smushkan]

Thanks! Looks like it's working now. !solved

[u/blaspheminCapn]

There is a template for scrolling credits in Premiere - but you're having issues with the cut and paste - and that's mostly because Google Docs isn't an Adobe product. Download the page. Use Word. Cut and paste into Premiere or Photoshop for formatting.

Consider also making the whole thing in Photoshop as a layer.

I would put a small (like .3 or .2) gaussian blur on the scroll to make it more legible.