Slick 9 - PDF Scroll

This effect is useful for creating scrolling titles, such as credits, that can mix fonts, sizes and colors, include graphics, and can be as long as you like! Use fancy layout and formatting options to your heart's content. The background of the title can be transparent, so the clip will show behind the text and graphics.

Instead of typing the contents of the title within iMovie, this effect uses a PDF file that can be created in the application of your choice. Creating a PDF is very simple in OS X – when printing a document just select the Save as PDF option to create a PDF file.

• The Scale slider adjusts the size of the PDF. At the largest size if will fill the entire width of the clip. A white line appears to show the page boundaries in the preview. These lines will not appear when the effect is rendered.
• The Alignment slider shifts the horizontal position of the scrolling title.
• The scrolling rate can be set two ways.
  • One way will “scroll to fit” so the entire length of the PDF will scroll though the selected clip.
  • The other method sets the PDF to a certain rate – but there is no guarantee that the entire PDF will complete scrolling to the clip is too short. If the PDF finishes scrolling before the end of the clip, nothing will be rendered at the end.

The Opacity Slider sets the background of the PDF to be semi or completely transparent. Click on the Fill Color box to set the background color. See Tips on Creating PDF files to get a transparent background in your PDF.