I have another idea for you, but whether it will work, will depend on the answers to these questions:

What is your Project's Frame Size Width (do not need the height)?

What will be the total Duration of the Crawl in mins:sec:frames?

Good luck,

Hunt

While one could create the Title completely in Titler, when one gets much beyond the width, or height of the Frame, editing becomes a bit of a task. Photoshop, or Photoshop Elements would be better programs, in my estimation.

Here are the steps that I would use:

1. Create the graphic for the Lower-Third. This can be done in Titler. Place that onto Video Track 2, above your Video.
2. In Photoshop (I know that program, but it should be the same in Photoshop Elements), create a New Image, and choose your 720p Frame Size w/ Guides and a Transparent Background from the drop-down Menu.
3. Go to Image>Canvas and widen the Canvas to the right. Note: unless it has changed, PrE can only handle Still Images up to 4096 x 4096. However, as you only have Type, you will end up using only a portion of the height, so you get to multiply the width, until you have a total pixel x pixel size of 16777216 pixels. For one line of Type, you will probably not need more height than about 50 pixels, so you could extend the Canvas to about 335544 pixels wide.
4. Type your Text, in one line, positioning it about where your Lower-Third graphic will be. You can fine-tune that in a minute.
5. When done, Crop (Crop Tool) to just above and below your Text.
6. Save_As PSD.
7. Import that PSD into PrE, and drag it to Video Track 3, above both your Lower-Third graphic and your Video.
8. Select that PSD, and go to the Effects Tab, choosing Edit Effects.
9. With the CTI (Current Time Indicator) at the first Frame of PSD, set a Motion>Position Keyframe (Toggle Motion>Position Animation ON), and scrub the X axis so that your first letter is off the screen on the right. You might want to type in some numbers initially, to save a lot of scrubbing, but to fine-tune, you will then probably want to scrub.
10. Go to the last Frame of the Title and add another Keyframe in Motion>Position. Now, we will scrub so that the last letter of the Title is off the screen to the left.
11. If needed, you can also tweak the height (Y axis), to align your Title with the Lower-Third graphic.

If your Duration needs to be longer, then think about breaking those PSD Titles into logical segments, creating a new PSD for each one.

I have not done a really long Crawl, but have done many very long Rolls where the height of the Title in PS is extremely tall. The only difference then is that I adjust the vertical, rather than the horizontal Motion>Position, and Keyframe on that.

Good luck,

Hunt

[Edit] As you are creating animation from Still Images, you will see a red line above the Clips and Titles. After you do your Keyframes, you WILL want to Render that area of the Timeline, for smoothest Playback.

Message was edited by: Bill Hunt - Added [Edit]

I just did a test, as I had never done such a long Duration Crawl, and in PrE, I was able to Import a 13000 x 130 pixel PSD. Now, in the test Image, I used 24pt Type, and when I got it into PrE, I realized that 30 - 36pt Type was better, so I cheated and just used Motion>Scale>Height (with Constrain Proportions unchecked). I did not do the math, but think that one could easily get 14000+ pixels on the width, if they Crop the height to just above the Text.

As for the Roll, the one limitation that you will run into is that if the Text goes for much of your width (1280), then you will have less height to work with. Since you will want you Text inside the Title Safe Area, you can Crop the width some, to just before and just after each line of Text, but you'll probably end up with about 6000 pixels in height.

For my long Rolls, I am usually going Widescreen SD, so am still dealing with 720 pixels width, but 5000 - 6000 pixels gets me a lot of material on screen.

To Mask your other lines of Text, just place a Mask (can be made in PrE's Titler, or PS) on the top Video Track, and apply the Track Matte Key to the Text PSD, linking to that Mask.

Good luck,

Hunt

You need to set the Fixed Effect>Motion>Positon, and not Scale (unless you need to tweak something). It is all about Positon, to animate.

Good luck,

Hunt

Good catch.

I had not even thought about that, as I never use it. I Scale everything in PS, or if in PrE, it is to animate something.

Some users employ Scale to Default Frame Size, rather than doing that work in PS, or similar, and there are some drawbacks to doing so.

Thank you for pointing that out, and I am now off to add that to my article.

Good luck and happy editing,

Hunt

Jim,

I would post to the Premiere Pro CS 5 - 5.5 - 6 Forum, with the same details, and perhaps a screen-cap of your Timeline, showing what you have and where. There are significant differences between the Timelines in PrE and PrPro, and there are differences in how many things work between the two programs.

Good luck, and I'll see you there.

Hunt

Great news!

If you do encounter any issues, the folk in the PrPro Forum can be very helpful, and quick.

See you there, and good luck,

Hunt