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Hello!
I was inspired late last year by others who have come before me and decided that it was time that I take a crack at a custom Star Wars crawl!
With DaVinci Resolve being my editor of choice, having it be done 100% in Resolve was my goal. This was actually only very recently made possible with the release of the Resolve 20 Beta, which introduced text boxes into Resolve for the first time.
Once I knew this was possible, my goal was to create a template for every single crawl that has shown up on the big screen, which I believe I have 99% accomplished! I have included 3 Title templates in a DRFX file that include:
- the classic green Lucasfilm Limited card with 3 options for both the text and color
- an extensive A long time ago card with all of the variations I could find
- a Star Wars crawl template including variations for the logo, and many branching variations depending on your preference
Each of these variations have been meticulously crafted to match their respective on screen counterpart as closely as possible, from font, to spacing, to color
Each of the three templates also include a custom color option, giving you the ability to make any of these cards any rgb value you wish!
A couple FYIs I’ll go ahead and make you aware of, you will have to source the fonts for this crawl, but I am including a PDF with links to all of the fonts I used for the project. I also figured out that Resolve does not save default lengths for templates, so everything defaults to 5 seconds. This is a relatively easy fix, however. Just click on the clip in your timeline after dragging it in, ctrl+D and set:
Lucasfilm Limited - 00:00:10:04
A Long Time Ago - 00:00:07:12
Crawl - Whatever the length is from your source movie, or anywhere from 00:01:10:00 to about 00:01:20:00
General rule of thumb I’ve found, find the first frame you see the Star Wars logo, create a break there, find the end right when the letters disappear, make another break there, and make the crawl template match that length. From there, the a long time ago card should fit perfectly with the new length before that, and the Lucasfilm logo before that if you so choose
This crawl is set in 2.39:1 aspect ration which covers everything except for The Force Awakens, which is a very similar 2.40:1. To fix this, just click timeline, output blanking, 2.4, which should set the boundaries of the project to 2.4
Happy to share via DM or I can post here if allowed!
