Make Rolling Credits Recede Like in Star Wars

[prkraus]

Is there any way in Premiere Elements 13 to make rolling credits recede like in Star Wars? Better still against a starry background?

[Steve Grisetti]

Sure is! In fact, this is a old trick Chuck and I developed for our first book on Premiere Elements and which we've also included in our "Cool Tricks & Hot Tips for Premiere Elements 11" book. It's trick number 48 of 50.
http://muvipix.com/cooltricks11.php

The trick is to use the Corner Pin effect to shape the title. The exact placement of each corner depends on whether you're working in a standard definition or high-def project.

Starry backgrounds are available for free from the NASA site.

[Bob]

If you don't want to use an actual photo of a star field, you can generate one in premiere elements.

Add a black video clip to the timeline (In the Project Assets panel, click New Item from the panel options and choose Black Video).
Add the noise effect to the black video clip. Set the amount to about 60% uncheck color noise and check clip.
Add a second noise effect (optional). Set the amount to about 0.9 check color noise and check clip.
Add a brightness and contrast effect. Set the brightness to about 53.5 and the contrast to about 98.8.

You can tweak the amounts if desired. Here's the important part. You need to take a freeze frame. How you do that varies a little depending on the version of premiere elements. Basically, you want select the Freeze Frame option from the Tools panel. Click "Insert In Movie" to insert the frame as a still image. It will insert directly into the movie at the current-time indicator. Delete the black video clip -- you don't need it any more. Position the freeze frame to where you want it to be and stretch the duration out to what ever is needed.

Here's a sample of what that technique looks like (in the monitor window with safe margins showing).

stars.JPG

You can also do something similar in Photoshop Elements and save that as an image that can be imported into your project.

[Peru]

There is also this:
http://muvipix.com/products.php?searchp ... =5&btn.y=4

[Steve Grisetti]

Man, that Muvipix site has everything, doesn't it?

[Chuck Engels]

I remade the old tutorial into a new one doing this two ways, with the corner pin and then with the Basic 3D effect. Both work well and the Basic 3D is really easy to use. Anyway the new tutorials should be out in the near future

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Man, that Muvipix site has everything, doesn't it?

Ain't that the truth!

[Ron]

Here are the NEW Star Wars Title tutorials:

http://muvipix.com/products.php?searchp ... 9&btn.y=17