Hopeless Geek

A quickie.

To make Hollywood-style credits in Final Cut Pro, create two “Scrolling Text” generators. Left-align one, put the part names in that one, then set the indent to 51%. Put the actors’ names into the second one, set it to right-align, and set the indent to 51% (they measure from opposite sides). If you change font metrics in one, change it in both, of course.

To get sections (cast, crew, locations, etc.) create a third generator, set the font metrics to be the same, and set it to center. Put in one blank line for every line in the others. Put blank lines in the others where there is text here.

It’s a hack, yes, and until Apple creates a real credits generator it’s what we have, but it beats keyframing a Photoshop file by a significant margin.