ProType - Scrolling or Crawling?

xberk wrote on 9/29/2007, 1:41 PM
A recent post about crawling got me thinking.

Crawling text at one time was up and down, vertical. Movie and television credits used crawls, often done on crawl machines Today crawling is mostly right to left, horizontal, at the bottom of the screen. This was once called a "ticker tape". So crawls were once produced on scrolls that went on "crawl machines". Today scrolling is the same as crawling. In ProType titler, Vegas calls it "scrolling" in the collection effects for what was once a "ticker tape".

What do you call it?

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Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/29/2007, 2:25 PM
horizontal = crawl, ticker (ie news ticker)

vertical = scroll.
Chienworks wrote on 9/29/2007, 3:35 PM
Yep, i'd agree with that.
auggybendoggy wrote on 9/29/2007, 10:06 PM
doesnt the ticker come from the stock market?

Tick in stock market means something (i think the last value on the ticker).

The ticker then moved to the neon animated signs and rolled across showing the symbol and value (NHM: -0.12)

just a thought.

In video I have no IDEA : )

Aug
FuTz wrote on 10/2/2007, 6:14 AM
I'd too go with scroll=vertical and crawl=horizontal.
But I'd have no problem with only scroll... scroll up, scroll down, scroll left, scroll right, scroll up left to right at 45°, etc... heehee :P
FuTz wrote on 10/2/2007, 6:17 AM
..could also be (related to the frame) : "in from left" or "in from right" or "in'n'out left to right" , etc... for crawl, that is...
For scroll: "in from top" or "in from bottom", etc...

Former user wrote on 10/2/2007, 6:20 AM
It is like the old thing on camera moves. Everyone learned that "PAN" was left and right and "TILT" was up and down. But now a lot of people say "pan up" or "pan down".

As long as you know what it means, I guess the actual words used aren't important.

Dave T2
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/2/2007, 6:25 AM
It is like the old thing on camera moves. Everyone learned that "PAN" was left and right and "TILT" was up and down. But now a lot of people say "pan up" or "pan down".

Really? I only use "pan" for up/down when it relates to a non-physical move, IE pan/crop in Vegas. I still say "tilt" (and "latency"... my GANDFATHER was surprised to hear that one!)
FuTz wrote on 10/2/2007, 6:26 AM
Exactly, lol !
...and I regularly see directors confusing "dolly in" and "zoom in", haha! ; )
FuTz wrote on 10/2/2007, 6:28 AM
...well Happy, now I'm with your grandfather... latency ?!?
Former user wrote on 10/2/2007, 7:35 AM
Here again, in my studio camera days you "trucked in or out" and "dollyed left or right"

Dave T2