I don't use scrolling titles much, but I've found that you can:
- Set up some styles and save as presets.
- For greater variety in styles, use scrolling titles on two or more tracks. Use empty lines to compensate for the text items on other tracks. This will take some getting used to, because if you don't get the lines right, the two rolls won't scroll at the same tempo. (That could be nice, too, but for different reasons.)

But as a general advise, KISS! Titles are meant for reading. Styles and graphics are used to improve the reading experience.
Tor

JRW
Try this:
Set up you credits and style them in Word. Copy them to your clipboard and paste them in the magnificent Vegas text generator. You will see that the styles and sizes are perfectly maintained. If the credits are very long you must split them into several events. Experience will tell you how to do this most efficiently. Use pan/crop to scroll.
TIP: If you are showing text over live video, use shadow or a semidark background to enhance readability.
Tor

PS
I just tried this today, because I've have not had Word and Vegas on the same machine for more than a few weeks.

You can use any font and any point size you wish. You're only limited by what fonts you have on your computer.

Roman-style fonts do not do was well as gothic fonts. The thin parts of the Roman-style fonts get lost when dropped below a certain size.

I really cannot see a way for VV to do credit rolls correctly. The Vv paradigm is doing something within an event. This is fine for most things but not for credit rolls.

Rolling text shoud be specified in lines (as in scan lines) per frame. If you cannot do this you cannot avoid nasties on the leading edge of your text. No doubt if I invested a lot of time with a calculator I could work out how to make VV roll text at a correct rate But then if I add one more line of text it doesn't change the event length it changes the scroll rate. Hardly a natural result.

This doesn't faze me much, I'm the only one I ever give credit to except the rest of VV is pretty professional but the credit roll just seems like something they threw together one wet Sunday afternoon. I'd reckon they'd be better off having left it out and if you needed a credit roll you bought a package specifically for the purpose.

Just my two bobs worth.

Farss, I understand what you're saying, but I can't entirely agree with it.

Someone else, I think it was Spot (but I may be wrong), gave a simple formula for obtaining the proper rate of scrolling to prevent the "nasties," I just love technical terms. ;o)

I've used the Credit Roll on a number of projects and, so far, not had any problems. Then again, I give the audience enough time to read the credits, unlike some I've seen on television. They roll up so fast that it is a physical impossibility for anyone, short of Data, to read them.

I'll do a search and see if I can find that formula I mentioned.

EDIT:
I stand corrected. Farss, it was you! There was no forumula, however. My mistake!

I think he is talking about the limitation of one font for each of the three types of lines. If you want to vary them, you can't. Change one subtitle and they all change. There haven't been any improvements in the credit roll event in the last three versions of Vegas despite the number of complaints I have seen posted here. There isn't much information in the manual regarding it's use either. To learn Vegas credit rolls and it's unintuitive quirks one has to search or post here (which I for one am thankfull to have as a resource).

In terms of the discussion above regarding getting the credit rolls to roll at a readable rate, here is the unintuitive way I use:

1. Place credit roll at end of video

2. Type in all the information

3. Edit generated media: Change the time length to the desired amount (may involve trial and error)

4. Go back to timeline and place the cursor back from the end of the timeline a distance equal to the desired length of the credit roll. I did it by typing in the cursor position (in the little box under the timeline toward the right) so it was exact.

5. MOVE the Credit Roll Left to the cursor position WITHOUT resizing it.

6. Send the cursor to the end of the video by clicking Go To END (CTRL+END).

7. Stretch the end of the credit roll to the Right up to the cursor WITHOUT holding down the CTRL key.

8. If the speed is too fast go back and do it all over again from step 3 above.


John

The web site www.adamwilt.com explains credit roll technicalities (above my head) and why sometimes the fonts are a little grainy or pixelated. This is the one thing about Vegas I did not like as it is not in the intuitive, easy to learn and operate style of Vegas. Adobe premier had a lot better credit roll operation.

JJK

My efforts to use Credit Roll were stymied by not being able to paste text into it from another document (I usually get the credits from the person who makes the theatrical program). Is there a way to do this?

Yes, you can paste into a credit roll. Just use CTRL-V.

Jetdv, your comment gave me the will to experiment. Turns out a text line with a tab between the left and right items is what I needed to get the two column thing working.

Thanks!

Yes, you can use word or notepad or any other text editor to enter your text. If you do not use a tab, it will use the single entry on one line version. If you use a tab, it will do the two entries on one line version. Also, remember there are THREE different types of entries - two of them are the single entry per line.

The easiest way is to just lay yout your credits on a really long page in photoshop, then just import it into vegas and scoll down it using keyframes. That way you can get it to look exactly as you want .

The easiest way is to just lay yout your credits on a really long page in photoshop, then just import it into vegas and scoll down it using keyframes. That way you can get it to look exactly as you want .

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Shouldn't be necessary to go through all that. Wouldn't you agree?

John

If you wanna do this:
I'd like to be able to use something like Tahoma 48 point for the header, 24 point Times Roman for the character name (in a play), and 36 point Comic Sans for the actor's name directly below the character name. I'd also like to be able to vary the leading between each character/name combination, and between groups of characters.

Yes, it is pretty much neccesary to do it in something other than Vegas.

Just tried the cut and paste from Word, Didn't work at all, all the text was the same size, the same font, and the same color even though they were all diffrent in the text file I cut and pasted them from.