Star Wars - Episode IV Opening Crawl / Intro (Authentic Recreation using DaVinci Resolve) [HD]

[@RubyGrube]

What did you do for the crawl? Did you use a transform effect? And how did you make the fonts different in the crawl like with the Episode number and the Subtitle?

[@OctaveRange]

Hi, the crawl text is made up from five separate Text+ clips that are all the same length (to keep the crawl speed the same) but each is started a bit delayed from the one before it (It looks like steps on the timeline, later clips above the ones before). The five clips are made up of "Episode IV", "A NEW HOPE" then each of the three paragaphs of text, that way each section can have it's own font, size and justification settings etc. Yes, the transform settings were used to set Pitch & Yaw, Position, Zoom etc. to put them in the right place on screen - But each of the five clips use the same settings for Transform. Once the timing, spacing and font size etc. was correct for each Text+ Clip they were combined into one Compound Clip so that the whole crawl could be sped up as it continues upscreen - Interestingly it's not a constant speed for the whole length of the crawl, it then fades as it disappears into the distance. Hope that helps a bit... :-)

[@baloofilmschannel]

Nice. What fonts did you use?

[@OctaveRange]

Thanks, the "A long time ago..." font is AppleSDGothicNeoRegular and the main crawl text is Franklin Gothic Demi. They were the closest I could find to what was used on the original crawl - which I understand was Trade Gothic Bold and News Gothic Bold respectively.