Star Wars Crawl

Gry Sarth · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 5:06 am Post subject: Star Wars Crawl

Someone posted this over at the Jedi Council, and I just HAD to share it with you guys. I think this is a great simple tool to start a campaign:

http://www.starwarscrawl.com/

Make your own animated Star Wars Opening Title Crawl in just a few seconds!
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ifurin · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 208

oh, wow! that is too cool!

McKinley · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:19 am Post subject:

That is cool. I wish these tools were around when I was playing first time around. they must really enhance the game...

i'm also digging the Soundboard.
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Gry Sarth · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

Well, I hope somebody got to put this crawl to good use, cause it's just been shut down by Lucasfilms. Sithspit, I was just about to use this on a game of mine. How could this possibly be hurting Lucasfilms? I mean, there are TONS of sites around that feature the Star Wars logo and theme music...
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cheshire · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject:

Lucas resented the fact that people had posted crawls that were better than the one in E3.

TrueGrit · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject:

Either that or WotC wants to charge you money to use it and got Lucasfilms to rattle the IP sabre at them.

Flynn · Cadet Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 6

Rats. I was planning to use that in my games starting in the fall.

Xynar · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject:

Anyone keep a copy of it?
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ziltmilt · Cadet Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 13

You can actually get pretty close to a Star Wars crawl with Windows Movie Maker, which I think is standard on any Windows PC. It's not 100%, but it's still pretty good. You'll need the Aurabesh (sp?) font, to do the Star Wars title.

1) publish a movie file of a blue font title over black 'A long time ago etc'
2) publish a movie file of a zoom title STAR WARS in the proper font, over a still image of a starfield (just google images for a starfield)
3) start up a 3rd project, importing both the above files and put them in order. Then, on top of your 2nd movie clip, enter a title that uses the Perspective Scroll, and type up your introductory paragraphs. You'll want to grab audio from a CD w/ the theme song, and you'll probably need to add an effect to this title, to slow it down.
4) publish this 3rd project file and you'll have something worthy of uploading to Youtube

I did this last week in fact. anyone wanna see it?

Another option I've seen on the web is downloading some program for an Apple machine ... if you google 'Star Wars' & 'title crawl', you'll find it. That program's also free.

McKinley · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:38 am Post subject:

I found this Ultra-Cool Title Sequence generator. It's for Mac only, but it's looks beautiful.

http://fancinematoday.com/2008/08/18/jaw-dropping-star-wars-fan-film-software/
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ziltmilt · Cadet Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 13

I went ahead and uploaded my title crawl created with Windows Movie Maker. Let me know what you think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9IpsJyx2Q

Doomhead · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject:

nice... I like it... do you have the files saved and are they available for others to exploit, pillage and plunder?
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ziltmilt · Cadet Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 13

If you're running Windows and you've got a CD of one of the Star Wars soundtracks, anybody can do this. Just follow the 4 steps I outlined earlier.

If there's a good place to stash files, I could post the files I created for this.

Video file 1 = the blue "long time ago ..." text

Video file 2 = the 'STAR WARS' title over the starfield

Image file 1 = the starfield image, for identical background for the crawl

Then, you'd create a new video project, import these 3 files and then write up whatever title text you need. I used slow speed on the crawl and played around with font size to get something that would last about as long as the music. It's really pretty easy.

Gry Sarth · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:19 am Post subject:

CHECK. THIS. OUT!

http://www.starwars.com/games/playnow/crawl_creator/index.jsp?cs=7av39qu4zz
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Kytross · Line Captain Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 776

You are awesome

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