Star Titler simulates the opening title crawl first introduced by Star Wars in 1977. You can easily import your own text files and make adjustments without leaving your favorite video app. Star Titler requires minimal setup: no keyframes are necessary to animate your titles. Here’s a fun project template that mimics the iconic Star Wars opening titles. Just edit the text, and you’re good to go! The project is made in 1080p50 format, but can easily be changed to whatever you need. As always: The template and the music are free, and you can use them for whatever you want. Star Titler simulates the opening title crawl first introduced by Star Wars in 1977. You can easily import your own text files and make adjustments without leaving your favorite video app. Star Titler requires minimal setup: no keyframes are necessary to animate your titles. This amazing Star Wars inspired template contains no plug-ins any features of great text speed controls and color control so that you can easily customize to all your needs. Quickly and easily impress your audience, using fun event videos, birthday videos, kids shows and much more.
UPDATE: 09/16/2014
All the links below are dead. Someone uploaded the files to megashares: http://d01.megashares.com/dl/bwX4ssO/Taolars_SW_Crawl_0.4.zip
It should work fine with AE 6.5. But I haven't tried importing into newer versions. Let me know if you try it!
-T
Star Wars Crawl Template
Star Wars Crawl Powerpoint Template
UPDATE 09/1/2008:
Version 0.4 is located here: Taolars_SW_Crawl_0.4.zip. See the included README file if you have any questions.
It now can output NTSC, PAL, and HD, the SW logo is now a vector graphic, and its easier to tweak colors, glow, text speed, and the tilt angle. I think it looks better too.
SD Video Example: SWCrawl_0.40_demo.avi . Note: The DIVX compression tweaked the colors and generally degrades the picture. See the still images below to get an idea of how it really looks.
HD Still Examples:
HD_Out _LOGO.jpg
HD_Out_CRAWL.jpg.
These are larger than most people's monitors, so if the edges of letters look jagged its because it was shrunk to fit your screen. Zoom in.
Let me know if you use it, and if your project gets released a mention in your credits would be nice, but not required.
Please PM me if you find any errors. Have fun!
-T
ORIGINAL POST:
Here's a crawl template that I put together for another fan editor. It's pretty accurate, easily adjustable, and I included instructions. Feel free to use it to your hearts content. Just please drop me an email if you use it in a finished edit. And a mention in your credits would be nice, but not necessary.
Taolars_SW_Crawl_0.2.zip
And here's what it looks like:
testcrawldivx.avi
The Divx compression made some of the colors fluctuate as it fades away. The uncompressed version doesn't do that...
Have fun,
-T