How do you slow down the crawl title

[bobgilles]

I tried to razor the clip, and it played at half speed, when I rendered it out to flash, it flys by at light speed.

Is there a way to slow down the crawl?

[ScorpioProd]

It should be just based on how long you pull the length of the crawl effect to in the timeline...

I've only done scrolls with it myself, but that's how they work.

[bobgilles]

If you pull a crawl title twice the length to slow it down, you have just made your program twice as long with the second half playing over black crawl, when I do this and razor the excess crawl, the title reverts back to the original. I have resorted to making the whole thing a sub project and trimming the excess, seems like a drastic measure to a simple problem.

[ScorpioProd]

Well... Uh, yeah, if you slow something to half the speed, it will become twice as long... And sure, if you cut it back to the original length, it will reset to the original speed...

The "effect" has no idea how long your crawl text inside of it is, it's just an "effect" that says to put whatever is in it as a crawl. The effect will always be the full length of the crawl, there's no place you can "cut" it to trim the crawl.

I'm not clear why you have excess to trim... You would just type in what you want in the crawl, not any excess...

If you make it a subproject, then it is treated as a truely timed event, as you found.

Thing is, I wish the CG crawls and scrolls had SPEED settings, so one wouldn't have to stretch the effects as we do now. This is how the real CG in VT[4] does it.

[bobgilles]

I am doing a crawl under some instore promo material and it is difficult calcutating wordcount/speed ratios, so the subproject trimming method is the only way to fix it after I have typed in the titles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj3akR55naA

[ScorpioProd]

Yeah, I can see how that would be tricky, and that's why a real SPEED setting for crawls and scrolls would help.

My reason for wanting the speed control personally is that there is currently NO way to make different length scrolls move at the same speed. I often have a number of different scrolls in some of my projects and I can't make them match each other in terms of speed, while in the VT[4] CG I can.