Can't Control Scroll Speed in Credit Scroll

MartinAdams wrote on 6/19/2009, 4:05 PM
I'm new to Vegas MS 9. I managed to enter all the credit data and format them, but I have not found out how to control the speed accurately. Also, many of the credits are cut off - it does not reach the end of them when previewed. I found no help in HELP. I'm at the end of a long movie (2 hours) and this is holding me up from completing the project. Anyone know how the scrolling credits work? Thanks for any clue. Oh, I have fiddled with the time box - it affects the speed, but I still don't see half of the credits. I did control-drag-right to slow it down, like for an event, but I am lost.

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gogiants wrote on 6/19/2009, 4:34 PM
One thought on why all of your credits aren't showing up: Open the event properties and look for a field called "Media Length". Sometimes this gets out of sync. change that to something longer than currently shown then see if more text shows up. If it does, fine tune that length until it shows all your text.

I'm not perfectly familiar with how to change the scroll speed in credits. Changing as above may influence the speed. You might also try playback speed (maybe in the "general" tab for properties) and change that to be higher than 1 (faster) or lower than 1 (slower). That might not be the perfect way, but it might get your project done...
thereddragon wrote on 6/19/2009, 6:16 PM
yeah scrolling text is the one big complaint I have in Vegas..its a pain and like the previous user the only way ive found to combat it is play with the length times. When your go to Edit Media youll notice at the top there is a time bar...youll probably have to mess with those numbers aswell
Chienworks wrote on 6/19/2009, 6:42 PM
First you need to make a guess of about how long the credits should last. In the credit roll screen there is a length parameter, center top of the window. Type in your length guess there. Now go back to the timeline and drag the credit roll event out to match the same length. It's easy enough to do because when you hit that length your cursor will "snap" to that position and you'll see a little triangular notch appear in the top corner o the event.

The credit roll will now take this long to run, and finish at the end of the event. You can fine-tune it from there with Ctrl-drag, but it's probably better to go back and repeat the previous steps instead.
Byron K wrote on 6/21/2009, 1:39 PM
Martin,
I've experienced the exact thing you're talking about too.

I just create my credit roll in MSWord, Notepad or Wordpad, copy and paste a credit roll into the text media generator and key-frame from top to bottom. If I have a long credit roll I just have separate text media clips. This makes so much easier to do interesting credit roll effects like fly in then scroll and insertion of candid shots during the credits. It is so much easier to edit and adjust the credit roll speed, just stretch the clip on the timeline and move the keyframe to the end of the roll. You also have the text media effects which allows you to customize the fonts and effects much easier to make the roll a little more interesting..
MartinAdams wrote on 6/28/2009, 9:10 PM
Thanks for the good answer. I actually fiddled with it and discovered that it was as you said. I had not dragged the credits out far enough, I guess, because when I did, all was well. Once I dragged too far and got repeats. "What the..." I was going nuts. Then it was like a light going on, Ah, so that's it. I wish I was coming back to this forum for the same simple problem. Now I have completed a two hour movie, rendered for six hours and got an error message that "an error occurred..." The video file looks okay, but there is no audio. Oh man, two months of work... This DVD is supposed to go on sale in a few days.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 6/28/2009, 9:52 PM
No audio? Remember that some of the mpeg2 templates are video-only. You have to render the sound separately and then join the two in DVDArchitect.
On the other hand, some mpeg2 templates DO render video+audio. (the default ones). Bottomline: carefully read the template's description and wisely select one. (You could also render a one minute selection of your video to see if everything is ok).
MSmart wrote on 6/28/2009, 10:02 PM
What MakeMovie Format and Template did you use? The description box will tell you what video and audio settings are for the file that will be created.

Since you say you have a 2-hour movie, I suggest you render to "Video for Windows (*.avi)" with a template of NTSC DV (or NTSC DV Widescreen depending on if your project is widescreen).

Then bring your 26GB .avi file into DVD Architect Studio and use the Fit to Disc feature to automatically select a bitrate to make your video fit onto a single layer DVD.

I'm making an assumption your video is SD since you don't say.

ADDED: Ivan jumped in ahead of me so my first sentence is redundant.

ADDED2: You are doing a Save As periodically, right? You need to have multiple versions should one get corrupted and loose all your hard work.