What Is Crawling Text

1. To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen: scrolled down to the end of the document. 2. To appear onscreen and roll by: “The information scrolls so fast it’s unreadable” (Creative Computing).

How do I make text crawl?

Creating Crawling Text You create crawling text the same way as rolling text, only you start by selecting Crawl in the Title Type window. As you type, your text will roll off the right side of the text window. In this case, the scrollbar appears at the bottom of the text window, allowing you to see all your text.

What is rolling text?

Your projects can include rolling text (titles that move vertically) for opening and closing credits and to make crawling text (titles that move horizontally) for things such as headline bulletins. Creating movie credits. You can use the Titler to create movie credits.