You have the ability in iMovie to create simple
scrolling text.
You can use that in end credits for a project.
But if you want something a little more complex
you probably need a piece of animation or
graphic software.
However you could do it pretty easily in Keynote.
So let's go, in Keynote, and create a widescreen
presentation because the video is probably
going to be widescreen.
Then we'll just use a black background.
Let's shrink down this so we can see what's
going on here.
Get rid of the text that's here and create
a new text box.
In this text box I'm going to insert, I'm
just going to paste a list of fifty names
randomly generated.
Let's say this is going to be our scrolling
credits here.
So maybe we want it to be a little bigger.
Use the sidebar here and increase the font
size.
Something a little bit more decent.
Now the idea is that we want it to scroll
up the screen.
So we can have it start here at the bottom.
I want to check in the Format sidebar under
Arrange and see where it is positioned.
You can see it 705 is the x position and 1080
is the y position all the way down below the
bottom of the screen.
So let's switch to animate and under Action
we'll Add an Effect.
We're going to add the Move effect.
Now the Move effect we want it to go and reposition
vertically.
So I want to set the x position to be the
same 705 that we had before.
Then I'm going to have this (y) be something
negative so it moves all the way up.
If I do negative 2000 you can see it does
indeed move up but not quite enough.
So we'll try negative 3000.
You can see that just covers it there.
So now when I Preview it you can see how quickly
it scrolls from not even appearing, through
the screen, and then out the top.
I, of course, want to slow this down.
So I'll slow it down to 30 seconds and I can
do a Preview here and you can see now it's
a little too slow.
Let's try 20.
That's a little bit better.
But notice it's kind of speeding up as it
goes because the Default Acceleration is Ease
In or Ease Out or Ease Both.
So let's set it to None so it moves at a constant
rate.
Now it looks like a kind of credits.
We can use that certainly right there as our
credits.
But we can do even better.
Let's go and Remove the Transition.
So we get rid of that.
Let's bring this back up here.
Now what if we wanted to add cute little images
like you see a lot in credits.
So, for instance, we can add a cute little
hat here to the side.
We can add another one.
A little duck.
We can do Command A to select all and scroll
everything up.
Then continue to add things.
So we can add a little microscope here.
The idea could be to put them next to people's
name or just be something just to color it
up a bit.
A little palm tree.
You know so you can continue to add those.
You can add real images, you can add your
own drawings, you can add anything you want.
Even more text to it if you want.
You can have multiple columns of text.
You can have things next to each one of these
people or something like that.
You can have groups of text in here.
It can be a lot more than just one field.
It can be a lot.
Because we're going to do Command A to select
all and then we're going to group them together.
Now it's one big group.
It's one big object.
Now we can bring it back down to the middle
there like we had before.
We can once again check this to see where
it's at.
So 592 x.
Let's Animate it.
So we'll do 592 and then we'll do the negative
3000 again which still should be good.
There we go.
Now when we Preview it, let's do 20 seconds,
we can see it's going to scroll up, oh we
forgot to change to no acceleration, so now
we'll scroll up and it will have those little
objects there as well.
So this is much better than what you get just
in plain iMovie.
You can really build anything you want and
have it scroll up.
But with a list of names and some shapes it's
quick and easy.
Now that we have this here we can export.
So we do Export To and we'll do it to a movie.
We'll do higher resolution and we'll make
it Self Playing.
Then we'll save it to the Desktop.
Once it's all done exporting we'll have that
1080 movie that includes that.
Even though you needed to click in order to
go and start the animation in Keynote you
don't have to do that here for the export
because we set the export up to be self playing.
Now we'll open it up and you can see it starts
blank and as we play it it's going to scroll
the credits up the screen.
Now we can go ahead and import this into iMovie
and add it as credits at the end of our project.
