Date: 20/12/2005
| I havn't released a new application in a while, so presenting Roll Credits! This little app converts a still image into a scrolling credit style AVI. All the video editors that I have access to can't do this (yeah I know.. what the!) so I wrote a little itty bitty app to do it.
Video editors always want to rescale the image to fit the frame... and in my case the image was a 720x5600 pixel image created in Illustrator, and scaling to the PAL frame size caused either great bogs of black padding or stretched text. The nice thing about Roll Credits is that you get 1:1 pixels, no scaling EVER. So you can do you your pre-processing in a decent graphics application (e.g. Photoshop/Illustrator) and get that exact output in the video.
I wrote this over the weekend for a theatre production I was involved in and it worked great. The AVI output was converted and burnt to DVD and then played at the end of the production and everyone loved it.
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