"Is there a way to control the speed of the credit roll?" Yes

"I have about 20 lines of stuff and it seems to pick up speed at the end." - Are you using the Credit Roll Time Line Key frames? If you are, then you can elect for different types of "speed": Linear; Fast; Slow; Smooth; Sharp & Hold. I can't remember which one, but one of these accelorates towards the end.

"Thought the speed would be synched with length of event but it loops." Ah the LOOP I guess is your attempt to force a longer length of media. You can set the Media length under Rigth Click>Properties>Media Tab and enter your size/length of media. Now if you want to s t r e t c h the media to makin it slower then CTRL+Right Click GRAB end of Event and this will slow down the clip. Maybe you didn't CTRL+RT Grab end of media? This would have gievn you the looping thing - yeah?

My opinion is to get your head around using the X-Y coords within TextMedia. Credit roll I find far to cumbersome . .. But you use what you use!

Grazie

Many Thanks... the Control-Right Click & stretching the event seems to have worked.

Later I'll play with the X & Y but I'm under the gun right now.

Again...appreciate it!!

Glad you found your answer (or at least something that worked for you in this case).

The best solution (assuming you are using the credit roll) is to set the length of the clip inside the properties of the credit roll itself (this was described above).

Setting the length value in the properties does not however actually automatically size the event for you... you still have to stretch the right-side of the event out along the timeline so that it matches the length set in the properties. this is easy to do as you stretch it until you see the little triangle appear indicating you have reached the end.

Another way to set the length without dragging or setting the length in the credit roll dialog, is to create a selection in the timeline on the new track, then right click or choose Insert/Generated Media. This will generate the length without any input.
Of course, you can always CTRL+Drag to make it longer/slower, or shorter/faster after the fact.
Beauty of Vegas, half a dozen ways to do most anything.

I agree with Grazie. The Credit Roll generator has never impressed me, and you're much better off learning to animate still text (in all the wonderfully varied ways Vegas allows you to do so). You'll have complete control and much, much more creative freedom.

There is a limit as to how far you can stretch out the event by dragging left as far as I can tell.
Here is what I do. It works, but shouldn't be necessary if Sony/SF reworks the credit roll generator eventually:
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.

Add to the above the fact that there are severe limitations in terms of the variety of fonts and colors one can use. You choose one for each of the three titile types and that's it. No more choices. Change it and they all change. Amateurish. Has been since Vegas 2.0

John

I have a complete article on the credit roll tool in my newsletters.