Scrolling end credits

[PhilCheese]

Can someone please explain to me how I now create scrolling end credits for a film with the so-called "Essential Graphics" panel?

I've spent two hours trying to create a large text box which scrolls onto and then off the screen but that creates a weird mask where the bottom of the initial text box hit the screen boundary which hides half the text. Rubbish.

I thought something like this would be, frankly, made easier by this new-fangled "Essential Graphics" and is something that ALL VLEs I've used provide. And now I've updated to 2017.1 I've lost the Title panel, which for all its faults, at least allowed me to do simple tasks like this. All the "credits" in this "Essential Graphics" travesty are like poster credits and therefore completely useless in a VLE.

Anyone know how to do this?

[Meg The Dog · Accepted solution]

To use the old title tool, go to the menu File > New > Legacy Title.

The roll/crawl button is  in the upper left corner.

MtD

[PhilCheese]

Thanks MtD.

[Ann Bens]

FAQ: How do I create a roll or crawl (scrolling credits) with the Essential Graphics panel?

[PhilCheese]

Thanks, Ann.

So there isn't a way to do it with "Essential Graphics" - hardly essential then eh?

P.

[Peru Bob]

It's still a work in progress.  That's why the Legacy Titler is still there.

[PhilCheese]

Hmmm, I'm not sure I want to be paying for releases of software that contain works in progress. It's actually a bit horrible to use too. No constraining, no aligning of objects to each other, two different ways of doing text - one creates a scalable text box while the tool creates a text box a la Photoshop. It smacks to me of something that's been rushed out for a release.

It feels pretty poor to me to be releasing incomplete software. It's not like there isn't a tonne of bugs that still need addressing. Do those first I say, stop messing with the functionality...

[karlh23781468]

How do you even open Essential Graphics...I get a clack screen when I click on graphics.  Not allowed to use legacy titles for this assignment

[Ann Bens]

Hit Reset to Saved Layout a couple of times.