Credit Roller

This page illustrates how to produce a credit roller for projects destined for studio recordings. Many of the initial stages also apply to working on edited projects as well.

Credit Roller

A fairly standard way of showing the credits is to roll rows of text up the screen, either over pictures or just against black.

TV channels control how programme credits are shown: who gets a credit, how long they last and often the graphic style.

Making a Credit Roller

This short video takes you through the steps to create rolling credits using Premiere Pro.

NOTE: If you are working in Premiere Pro 2022 or 2023, to access the Captions and Graphics panel, you now need to click on the Workspaces icon and then select Captions and Graphics from the list.

Exporting the Roller as a Piece of Video

Once you are happy with the appearance of your roller and it is the correct duration, it can be exported so that you can take it to the gallery and play it at the end of your programme.

- Move the playhead to the start of your roller clip in the sequence window
- Mark an IN point (Press I on the keyboard)
- Go to the end of the clip and mark an OUT point (Press O on the keyboard)
- From the menus File > Export > Media… or (Cmd-M)

The Export Window

You will see your roller in the preview panel on the right, but it might look as though it is not there. If your roller starts off screen you will see either a black frame or a chroma green frame.

Preview:

- Make sure the ‘Source Range’ (bottom left) is set to Sequence In/Out
  - This makes sure you only export the video between the In and Out you set.

Settings:

- Set ‘Format’ to QuickTime
- Set ‘Preset’ to Apple Pro Res 422 (LT)

If you do not see Apple Pro Res as an option, click on the icon to see more presets.

Click the ‘Video’ tab and set/check as follows: (you scroll this sub- window to see all settings)

‘Video Codec’ - Apple ProRes 422 (LT)

‘Width’ - 1920

‘Height’ - 1080

‘Frame Rate’ - 25

‘Field Order’ - Upper First

‘Aspect’ - Square Pixels

If you do not have Upper First selected for Field Order, (it will probably say Progressive) - click on the tick at the end of this row to see additional options and choose Upper First. This will change the file to the Interlaced format we require in the studio.

These settings will ensure your finished video will run in the studio gallery.

Click ‘Export’ (at the bottom right of the export window).

Your roller will be saved as a video file with a .mov extension on the file name.

Written by PS/LA

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