Help with Huge Credit Roll

landj9697 wrote on 4/26/2004, 12:20 PM
I'm working on a thesis documentary for a friend of mine and I'm down to the credits. The credits are very long because all of the works and sources used in the film must be cited. I had my friend type them all out in a Word file thinking that I could just copy and paste them into the credit roll generator, but apparently it's not that easy. As near as I can tell, it actually wants you to insert all of this stuff line by line, and there's no way that I have time for that (the finished DVD is due in 2 days). Am I missing something here? All I want to do is dump all of this text into some kind of text generator and scroll it. Please help!!!

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GaryKleiner wrote on 4/26/2004, 12:45 PM
You can indeed copy and paste your credits from Word to the text scroll en masse.

Perhaps if you describe what you are doing step-by-step, we can see where you are going wrong.

Gary
JL wrote on 4/26/2004, 12:46 PM
You’ve got it right. In Media Generator, insert the Credit Roll on a track, open your Word file, copy text, click on “insert text here” in Credit Roll Media Generator workspace and paste. You can set the desired length in the length field, then drag the edge of the clip to that length.

JL

MisterPat wrote on 4/26/2004, 2:54 PM
I see it working in text generator but may be missing something in "Credit Roll"
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 4/26/2004, 3:32 PM
There is a previous post to this . do a search.
Use Notepad add a name, do return for the next name,if you want double text on the same line have a TAB between the first word and the second on the same line.

Highlight & Copy text (CTRL C) and the click on the first line of the roll and CTRL V to paste
MisterPat wrote on 4/26/2004, 3:38 PM
That's a long, long, long way from "copy & paste" a "huge" MS Word document into a scrolling text.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/26/2004, 3:51 PM
When you type your word doc here's how you do it.

1) anything on a single line will be a subitem text.
2) if you have a TAB on a line, it's a left/right item. On the left of the TAB is the left item & on the right is the right item.
3) a blank line will be a subitem text with nothing in it.

Select the entire word file (or in my case, Openoffice.org) & paste it into the credit role.

I just did it and it works perfect. :)

Mandk wrote on 4/26/2004, 5:59 PM
This is a snap in Boris Graffiti. I purchased it last year to do a credit roll with a few hundred names.

With Boris you truly do cut and paste from word.

Landj9697, if you are still stuck and could use some help send me an email to mandkproductions@aol.com. I could take your word file, create a roll, render it and return it fairly quickly.
landj9697 wrote on 4/27/2004, 12:51 AM
Thanks for all of your suggestions. Using CTRL V did the trick. I kept trying to do it with just a right click copy and paste and it wouldn't work. Again thanks to all...
MisterPat wrote on 4/27/2004, 4:00 AM
Apparently I'm a little (lot) slower on the draw than others but I finally "got it" with the hotkey method. I too was attempting to use the right-click copy & paste method.

For anyone else than is having a problem with this . . . you MUST use the Cntrl+C & Cntrl+V method.