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How to make rolling credits in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Make a text graphic with all the credits, deselect the text, and tick Roll in the Essential Graphics (or Properties) panel. The clip's length sets the speed.
In Premiere Pro
01
Type the credits
Press T, click in the Program Monitor and type or paste the credits. Use a new line for each name.
02
Lay them out
Center the text and set the size and line spacing so the names are easy to read.
03
Turn on Roll
Click an empty part of the panel so no text layer is selected, and tick Roll in Essential Graphics (or under the graphic's settings in Properties). Choose Start Off Screen and End Off Screen.
04
Set the speed
Make the graphic clip longer in the Timeline to slow the roll, shorter to speed it up.
- Fine lines flicker on a slow roll. Use a bold font at a reasonable size.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Rolling credits aren't a documented Eddie feature. Add them in Premiere.
Eddie makes title cards and lower thirds that carry into Premiere. Build the edit and its titles in Eddie, then add the roll in Premiere after the hand-off.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- Where is the Roll option in Premiere?
- In Essential Graphics, shown when you deselect every text layer of the graphic.
- How long should credits roll?
- Long enough to read each line, often 30 to 60 seconds for a short film.