Film or show credits are the kind of thing that will require some thought on how to implement them. If you don’t have a system in place, and there are changes, big or small… You might be in for a bad time.
[pullquote]Build responsive, easy-to-edit credit scrolls.[/pullquote]If you are creating a credit roll in After Effects this will be no longer true, thanks to Victoria Nece’s Credits Are Due script. Credits are Due allows you to easily and quickly build a credit roll directly in Ae.
If you are working in an NLE, there will be tools in place that will allow you to build a credit roll, After Effects oddly, has no such tools. Credits are Due, is a neat little addition to Ae, letting build credits with a dynamic layout. This lets you reorder resettle or even reclassify existing elements. It does this independently of the text formatting.
Credits are Due, Features:
- Create six types of scroll element
- Dynamic layout: reorder, restyle or reclassify existing elements and leave custom text formatting alone
- Arbitrary multicolumn layouts: break things into as many columns as you need
- Add images and footage as well as text
- Scroll in whole-pixel increments
- Change global scroll speed, position and element spacing
- Speed up previews and rendering by auto-trimming layer duration to match on-screen visibility
- Ctrl/Cmd-Click to select layers by type
- Shift-Click to override existing text selections and create new elements
