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- Introduction
- Flying Solo: Preparing the Project
- Creating Your Long Ago Text
- Building Your Opening Logo
- Animating Your Logo
- Flying Solo: Preparing Your Scrolling Text
- Making the Scrolling Text Scroll
- Changing the Speed
- Transforming the Shape of the Scrolling Text
- Animating the Scrolling Text
- Flying Solo: Adding the Star Wars Theme Music
- Flying Solo: Adding Some Project Polish
- Making Adjustments, Rendering, and Exporting
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Building Your Opening Logo
Every Star Wars movie has its instantly recognizable opening logo, and every good parody (or homage) should have it, too. Creating the logo is straightforward. You’ll use the Titler to enter this text: clone attack. Just be sure you use the font from this chapter. The font is so recognizable that people will understand the reference right away. In addition, the logo behaves a certain way (static and bigger than full screen for the first few seconds, then drifting out to vanish in deep outer space). As long as you follow these few simple rules, everyone will understand the reference.
Set Up Your Logo in the Titler
Move the Current Time Indicator (CTI) to the end of the Timeline by pressing End on the keyboard.
Click the Add Default Text button under the Monitor panel and the Titler opens with the Add Text automatically selected. Type over it with this text:
- clone
- attack
Highlight the text you just typed by dragging your mouse across it or by pressing Ctrl-A on your keyboard.
Right-click the text and from the contextual menu, select the Star Jedi Hollow font.
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Adjust and Stylize the Logo
- The font looks cool, but you need to adjust the font size and reduce the leading to make it dramatically fill the screen
and give it that distinctive Star Wars look. To do so, in the Titler Properties panel, enter these settings:
- Font Size: 305
- Leading: -198 (negative)
- Adjust the text justification by clicking the Center Text button.
- Center the two words on the screen this way:
- Click the Vertical Center button.
- Click the Horizontal Center button.
- Click the Color Properties button.
Select a yellow color by entering these settings:
- R: 255
- G: 255
- B: 0
Click OK, then click anywhere on the Timeline to exit the Titler.
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Relocate the Clone Attack Logo
- Select the Clone Attack clip and move the title up the Timeline so the head of the new title aligns with the tail of the
other two clips.
- Extend the duration of the starfield.jpg by dragging the tail of the clip up the Timeline so that it aligns with the tail of the Clone Attack title clip.
- Zoom the Timeline so that you can see all of the clips on the Timeline.
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