Ah!

So I just drag the credit roll in size to match the area I want it to last for, then double click it to highlight it and look at the length (3rd attribute) I then go into the properties of that credit roll and make its duration the same as that length.

Worked perfectly! Thank you.

Try holding down CONTROL and then extending the right edge of the event.

This will lengthen the duration of the credit roll, without looping back to the beginning.

I use this technique to match length of credit roll to length of music at end of program.

The reverse (compressing length) works great too!

Greg

This method only works over a speed range of 0.25 to 4.0. That isn't much help if you want your credit roll to last for 5 minutes.

Now, all that being said, it seems to me that a far more logical behavior for Vegas would be to automatically make the length of the credit roll equal to the size of the event on the timeline. How many of us would ever drag the event out to 5 minutes long and *want* 5 minutes' worth of credits to scroll up the screen in 10 seconds and repeat 29 more times? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller? Beuller? Anyone at all? Nahhh, i didn't think so.

Chien,

How about right-clicking event, then setting duration there?

Where, specifically? Right-mouse-button clicking brings up a context menu. From there you can go into edit media or properties. In either of those screens you can set the media length. However, neither of these adjust the length of the event on the timeline.

The issue is that it's a two-step process. You have to adjust the media length and the event length. Seems like Vegas should be smart enough to do both of them together with one user operation.

Kelly, I agree. There are several (not a lot, fortunately) things in Vegas where you have to ask, "would ANYONE -- even once -- want this feature to work this way?" For example, if a keyframe is placed at the last frame in an event, and you later extend the end of event, that keyframe doesn't stay at the end, yet if you extend the beginning of the event and there is a keyframe at the beginning, it stays at the beginning.

Arghh!!




Annoying, eh? Sort of a Bueller Bolero ...

I don't see the problem. I just put the credits on a separate track above my program event, then right click-drag the end of the credits to the end of the program event.

Done.

Or, am I doing something wrong?

Since apparently they are never going to update the retarded Credit Roll generator, here is the method 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) Depends upon what you are doing.

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

mark your IN time and your OUT time and doubleclick to select that area.

Right click and insert GENERATED MEDIA. Then select credit roll. The credit roll is now the length you created.

Dave T2

Nice. As with Photoshop, there are multiple ways to achieve the same end result. Such open-ended ability speaks well to the program, as it allows more people to get a grasp of the concept and create the desired outcome.

As with Photoshop, there are multiple ways to achieve the same end result. Such open-ended ability speaks well to the program
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Not really.

The credit roll has always been a joke and hasn't been updated since it's inception in Vegas 2 despite our pleas. It is amateurish in it's implementation and our workarounds are only out of necessity, nothing more.

John