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Create A Scrolling Credits Screen

9/5/2017

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Updated: Jan 2021
​Would you like to show a scrolling credits screen at the end of your event, similar to those seen at the end of a great movie?

This article explains how you can design a professional looking scrolling credits screen that will be displayed to each of your event users, something like this...

Step 1 - Write your credits

  • Write your credits using Windows Notepad.
  • In the Windows Start box, type notepad
  • Select and run Notepad
  • Type your credits and make sure you add quite a few empty lines between each credit.
  • Save your file somewhere on your computer (such as your Documents folder)
  • Name the file: credits.txt
Take a look at the credits file we created for this tutorial...
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Step 2 - Add a credits screen to your RightBooth event

  • Run RightBooth
  • Open your event file
  • Go to the Screen Editor
  • On the Screen Editor toolbox, click the Add items checkbox to show the Add Items panel 
  • On the Add items panel, click the Screen button to add a new blank screen to your event.
  • Name your new screen: Credits.
  • Use the Down arrow on the Screen Editor toolbox to move the new Credits screen down the screen list so that it is placed just above the Thank you screen (see image)
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Step 3 - Add content to your Credits screen

  • In the Screen editor, select the new Credits screen.
  • On the Screen Editor toolbox, click the Properties check box to show the Screen Properties panel.
  • Click the Video button (in the Background section of Properties)
  • Choose a video from the RightBooth Media Library.  For this tutorial we chose the file Space3 (located in the \Space folder)

​Note: The Videos in the Media Library have all been optimised for speed and designed to loop seemlessly,
  • On the Add Items panel, click the Label Sequence button to add a new blank label sequence item to your credits screen.
  • Double click the mouse on the new blank label sequence item to show the Label sequence files panel.
  • In the Label sequence files panel, click the Add button
  • Browse and select your credits.txt file to add this file to the sequence list (see image)
  • Click OK to return to the credits screen.
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Step 4 - Set the credit animation properties

Your label sequence item will now be showing your credits.  You need to edit its animation properties:
  • Click on the label sequence item to select it
  • Tick the Properties check box on the main toolbox to show the Properties toolbox
  • Set the following animation properties:
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  • Animate: Push up
  • In: 1
  • Out: 1
  • Speed: 30
  • Pause: 0
  • Fade in: Not ticked
  • Fade out: Not ticked
  • Also (VERY IMPORTANT), make sure you un-tick the Clip property.

Step 5 - Size and position the credits

This step is a little tricky to get right, but keep going until you achieve the desired affect.
  • Alter the width of the label sequence item to suit your credit text contents.
  • Alter the height of the label sequence item so that it is slightly bigger than the full extent of the credit text contents.
  • Note that you will need to zoom out the editor view to achieve this.  In the screen shot you can see that we have zoomed out the editor view to 0.2 to allow us to move and size the item beyond the extents of the credit screen boundary
  • Position the label sequence item so that most (if not all) of it extends below the bottom edge of event screen as shown in the screen shot.
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​You will need to experiment with both the vertical position and the height of the label sequence item until you get the desired effect shown in our example video.

Remember that the label sequence item's Clip property must be turned off.  This will allow the push animation to keep displaying the text contents up past the top edge of the label sequence item.

Note that the credits will keep on scrolling until your credits screen times out.

Job Done.   ​Watch out Speilberg (or is it Lucas?), we're coming to take over :-)
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