Star Wars Crawl howto in Movie Maker

Star Wars Crawl intro made in Windows Movie Maker. I made this for a the Traitor's Gambit adventure for Star Wars Saga rpg from Wizards of the Coast.

Star Wars Crawls are easy to do with Windows Movie Maker, I did this one in XP SP3.
Here's how:

First get Jedi Hollow Font which is available free on the web and install it, and also track down an audio file of the star wars theme.

Step 1: Create opening text.
In Movie Maker click tools and go to Titles and Credits and create a new title at the begining.
Type in "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..."
Set the font to Franklin Gothic Medium
Change the text color to custom color 75,213,238
Change the text bg to black
Set title animation to Fade, In and Out
Resize the text until it fits on two lines.
Click done

Step 2: Create Star Wars logo.
Click Tools, Titles and Credits, Title after selected clip
For the text type in @ (yes just the @, the Jedi Hollow font makes the logo)
Change the font to Star Jedi Hollow
Change the Font color to yellow
Increase Font size to whatever looks good to you.
Click done
Right click on the new clip in the timeline and select "Video Effects"
Add "Slow down, half"

Step 3: Add the Crawl Text
With the second clip selected in the time line click Tools, Titles and Credits, Title after selected clip
Type in your crawl text. Should be several paragraphs, and don't forget to spell check.
Change the font to Franklin Gothic Medium
Change the font to the smallest size
Change the title animation to "Scroll Perspective"
Click done
Right click on the clip in the timeline and select "Video Effects"
Add "Slow down, half" 2 times.

Step 4: Add music
Click "Import audio or music"
Drag your music clip from the collections area to your timeline.
Move it around to line it up with the beginning of the Star Wars logo clip.

In the timeline shorten the END of the audio and the crawl text clips to a satisfactory length, should be around the 1:30 mark. You should end these in the quiet section in the waveform.

That's it, save your video (I recommend setting it to High quality Large) and you're done.

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Tags:

• SWRPG
• Traitors
• Gambit
• Crawl
• howto

[BrickAction101]

the @ thing doesn't work for me =(

[jidar]

You have to make sure you have downloaded and installed the Jedi Hollow font (you can find it through google), and make sure you have selected it for step 2.

[bulletwound1974]

This is one of those things which you should be beaten for not knowing how to do it. All you have to do is change the text animation on your opening credits. Who is too dumb to figure that out?

[jidar]

There is a bit more to it than that to make it look right, as you can see on the side. Thanks for your input though Internet tough guy.

[NerdyIncorporated]

I don't seem to have "Scroll perspective" either! Gah! I'm doomed!

[ThePenIsLiquor]

@tpong777 download windows movie maker 6.0. you can't do anything with windows live movie maker.

[tpong777]

Sorry, pressed enter by accident.

I have windows 7 and I can't find a lot of the effects on the new WMM

for example, the scroll effect makes it scroll up, and not inward.

Do you know how to fix this?

[tpong777]

scroll



[thesuperadventurer]

could you add an image to the background say...a star field?

[crackerjacksguild]

@Quinlan67 Simply lenghten the time of the crawl text in video maker. since the same amount of text will be shown during a longer amount of time, hence the speed at which the text is shown is slowed.

[snickersoreo12]

Awesome video!! Can't thank you enough!! :)

[gigireisner]

stars maybe?



[OdairFernandes]

"Scroll Perspective"??!! Where can I find it?

[Quinlan67]

Couldn't get the text to slow down, but all the rest works fine.

Thanks for the help.

[LegoMovieMan44]

How do you do the animation?