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 Crawl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crawling is to move in a slow, creeping fashion, usually dragging the body along the ground by using the hands and knees.
In television, a news crawl is a moving line of text usually put at the bottom of the screen.
Crawl may also refer to the roguelike computer game Dungeon Crawl, or to the dungeon crawl style of adventure in general.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crawl   (205 words)

  
 BU | WebCentral | Learning | More with SMIL | Window Tag
A ScrollingNews window is preset to have text scroll from the bottom of the window to the top at a set rate for the entire presentation.
Text centering, however, corresponds to the actual region width set in the SMIL file.
If the text has looped and new text arrives, the new text displays as soon as the old text has moved out of the window.
www.bu.edu /webcentral/learning/smil2/rt_window.html   (728 words)

  
 Boris Text Generators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In order to edit text in the Text window you must always select the text or letters of the text first, then make your changes.
The 'Cancel' button closes the Text window and returns you to the control tab in the Viewer with none of the changes that you made since opening the window applied.
This setting is used to remove flicker on vertically scrolling text and works by applying a very slight one pixel blur to the text.
www.kenstone.net /fcp_homepage/basic_boris_text_gen.html   (1942 words)

  
 FRMLABEL
text to display on the frame's image label; all text is displayed in uppercase; 250 characters maximum; the following placeholders can be specified for text substitution of information from the frame, dataset or displayed image; the output format is indicated in italics, e.g., nnn
number of seconds the text crawls across the frame; the range is 0 to 600 (default=120); when the specified number of seconds expires, the text is repositioned to the location specified with keyword JUST
This entry displays an image label with the specified text in fl (brightness level 0) with a white (brightness level 255) background beginning at line 22.
www.ssec.wisc.edu /mcidas/doc/users_guide/current/frmlabel.html   (646 words)

  
 Crawl
To crawl is to move in a slow, creeping fashion, usually dragging the body along the ground by using the hands and knees.
In television, a text crawl is a moving line of text usually put at the bottom of the screen.
It is generally set up to convey news and up-to-the-minute information about weather and other critical situations.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/crawl.html   (227 words)

  
 The New Boris Calligraphy Titling Tools in Final Cut Pro 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Once text is entered, to make changes, click and drag in the window to select what portion of the text you want to affect.
It doesn't matter if any of the text is selected, it will re-size all the text proportionally- small and larger text will still be larger and smaller in relation to one another, but both text sizes will change together.
The Title Crawl generator is the same as the Title 3D generator, with two notable distinctions- you can add a roll or crawl for creating end credits or have text crawl along the bottom like a news ticker.
www.kenstone.net /fcp_homepage/boris_calligraphy_balis.html   (2904 words)

  
 Uncle Sam wants you for EAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A text crawl solution is a subset of baseband switching, and though advocated by several EAS equipment suppliers as the least disruptive, it may be the most expensive.
In this application, a text crawl is sent across the screen, while leaving the original programming itself undisturbed on a particular channel.
The ideal solution, says Cowe, is to have individual crawls on each channel, used to inform viewers that an emergency exists and which locations are involved; also, to refer viewers to a details channel for more information, including a playback of any audio messages which may have been received.
www.cedmagazine.com /pm/97sm/97sma.htm   (1373 words)

  
 Crawl - TheBestLinks.com - Text crawl, News, Scroll, Swimming, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Crawl - TheBestLinks.com - Text crawl, News, Scroll, Swimming,...
Text crawl, Crawl, News, Scroll, Swimming, Search engines, Web crawler, World...
A text crawl is an application of the computer graphics technique of scrolling.
www.thebestlinks.com /Text_crawl.html   (274 words)

  
 WSI : : Media Solutions Homepage
Although the Crawl body is an editable field that can be changed, WSI recommends that you do not make any changes to this portion of the crawl text.
The crawl body is updated whenever new data arrives, so any changes will disappear when a new bulletin is issued.
The new text will be added to the crawl text during the next crawl cycle.
www.wsi.com /solutions/media/articles/skyalert.asp   (439 words)

  
 WSI : : Media Solutions
Locate a scene that contains a crawl object and other scene objects that is similar to what you want for your customized Crawl From Text scene, and open that scene (or simply start a new SkyAlert scene).
Each time the system is made to run the crawl, it will open the latest version of the file you manually edited as indicated above, and it will use whatever text is found there (even if that text has changed).
After you are finished using the Crawl from Text feature, be sure to put your SkyAlert back in “normal” mode by opening whatever SkyAlert scene you normally run.
www.wsi.com /solutions/media/articles/skyalerttropical.asp   (493 words)

  
 Newsroom Solutions: FreedomFX
Unleash the power of the FX by combining rendered animations with on-the-fly text (crawl or hot-change), an integrated 3D DVE engine including width, height, position, and crop controls, with 32-bit graphics alpha keying.
While lowering your total cost of ownership, this feature allows you to do things like keep a static crawl while other objects change or position a time and temp bug in one layer without having to replicate the fields in all of your other templates.
One of Expio's major features is its ability to combine pre-rendered animation with on-the-fly text in separately addressable layers, perfectly synched on a timeline.
www.newsroomsolutions.com /products/freedom   (629 words)

  
 [No title]
Since the Roll Up is selected, the text box appears beneath the viewport (in the roll-up starting position).
Scrub in the Completion field until the text is in the desired position.
Over the duration of the animation, the text "rolls up" the viewport and lands in the specified position.
web.tiscali.it /olgab/14_Text32.html   (269 words)

  
 Video University: Video University Forums: Wedding & Event Videography: How to do credits in FCP?
I have tried using the built in text crawl, but the text looks bad.
When you look at it frame by frame, the edges of the text appear to flicker.
Tried your suggestion, and that didn't change a thing...the text still flickers.
www.videouniversity.com /forums/gforum.cgi?post=63601   (716 words)

  
 Create Crawling Credits in PowerPoint
In addition to creating a list of crawling credits at the end of a PowerPoint presentation, students can use this feature to create a scrolling time line.
As a matter of fact, it should run off the bottom if you are going to have enough text to make a crawl effect work well.
When you play your presentation, the text will crawl or scroll from the bottom of the screen and disappear off the top.
www.microsoft.com /Education/CrawlingCredits.aspx   (332 words)

  
 May the Type Be With You | Typographica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There was a great piece on starwars.com a while back with a history of the crawl, and I had my own take on it here.
The crawl, by the way, was created on a separate piece of ‘film’ and later shot at an angle over the sea of stars which was laborious to crank at the same correct speed.
When I recently set off to make my own crawl, I tried to be faithful to the the film’s version (while not relinquishing a bit of artistic license -g).
typographi.com /001002.php   (2711 words)

  
 DRS-DIGITRAX.COM DeBoard II Help HELP SYSTEM TOPIC:crawl box
The Crawl Object is used to display a horizontal text scroll.
The editor width of the the crawl edit text can be changed by dragging the navy blue sizing bar on the right of side of the crawl text area.
You can keep the text and the text attributes in the project with out actually playing them.
www.drs-digitrax.com /deboard_ii_help/crawl_box.htm   (218 words)

  
 Macvp.html
You may ad a text line on a new page layout by using the "ad item" menu or use the mouse to point to the area of the screen you wish to place text, then double click on this area.
When a text document is added to the page, the text will verticle crawl when the page is played.
Enter each text and define the text font and size and crawl, flash or position status.
www.clearphone.com /Macvpmanual   (2520 words)

  
 T'bone's SWU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I've learned to keep the text to a minimum when I want people to actually be watching the film.
The opening crawl is from the third draft screenplay...
This crawl was never used in the film, not even in the "Lost Cut"...
www.starwarz.com /tbone/cut_scenes/ep4/deleted_magic_faq.htm   (2381 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
If the program exits, it will be launched again after we have processed all the text it produced.
This will make the text appear unnaturally skinny, but may improve performance.
www.eg.bucknell.edu /~mead/subpages/man/man1/starwars.1   (703 words)

  
 CGTalk - Star Wars Opening Crawl Translucent Text - Seeing Stars?!?
It may be that the yellow in the text is giving a luminance value that is adding to the transparency.
Also, it would be probably better for you to do the creeping text in a composite program like after effects, rather than mess about with it in max.
My targa image was in colour, instead of fl and white, so the alpha transpanency wasn't working as it should.
forums.cgsociety.org /printthread.php?t=183866   (373 words)

  
 The Deadly Assassin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is the only serial where the Doctor does not have a companion.
The serial begins with Tom Baker doing a voiceover introduction referring to Time Lords in the third person, over a text crawl similar to that seen in the opening of (additional info and facts about Star Wars) Star Wars (although the The Deadly Assassin predates the premiere of Star Wars by six months).
The (additional info and facts about 1996 television movie) 1996 television movie is the only other story so far that begins with a voiceover, given by the (additional info and facts about Eighth Doctor) Eighth Doctor.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_deadly_assassin.htm   (387 words)

  
 XADM: Content Indexing Crawl May Not Stop Immediately
If an administrator tries to manually stop a full-text indexing crawl, Exchange System Manager may become unresponsive.
Also, the indexing process may not stop immediately, depending on the number of documents that are being indexed.
When you click Stop Population, the crawl should stop immediately, but it does not.
support.microsoft.com /kb/309779/EN-US   (242 words)

  
 Your PowerPoint question: Create MOVIE CREDITS-style crawling text
First, type your text, all of it, in a single text block and format it to suit.
Put a checkmark next to the text object that represents your text box (it'll show up as selected in the preview window when you do this).
Now when you play your presentation, the text will crawl or scroll from the bottom of the screen and disappear off the top.
www.rdpslides.com /pptfaq/FAQ00207.htm   (521 words)

  
 Scala - Text Crawl
So I'm decidedly a moron and can not figure out how to change the text in my text crawl box.
On the crawl tab on the far right of the screen, set the text source to "expression" and then you can modify the text in the box labled "Text Expression".
Is there any way of changing the background colour of the Global Text Crawl from Grey to any other colour or transparent?
www.scala.com /discussions/text-crawl-2785.html   (381 words)

  
 CHUD.com - Cinematic Happenings Under Development
By the time the crawl has reached the fifth paragraph you might feel incredulous.
Carnby is convinced, for reasons Boll never deems necessary to make clear, that the Abkani might have something to do with the fact that he got amnesia at the age of 10.
Anyway, as the movie opens Slater’s voiceover (we have had a text crawl, a flash back and expository voice over in the first five minutes of the film, and there is nothing even remotely complicated enough going on to warrant this.
chud.com /reviews/1352   (1761 words)

  
 T'bone's SWU
This "Lost Cut" crawl is a DVD-ROM special feature on the DVD release of Deleted Magic...
The 1977 crawl, that doesn't have "Episode IV: A New Hope" in it, also appears on the DVD.
All these crawls are created by fans, from scratch.
www.starwarz.com /deletedmagic/deleted_magic_faq.html   (2948 words)

  
 Psyches Genie
Psyches Genie Media PC is a PC based digital signage media control center utilizing high quality components with easy to understand commands that will make all of your digital signage media elements work together with hassle-free ease.
For example Psyches Genie Media PC can pause, rewind and record live TV utilizing cable, satellite or high definition antenna inputs and overlay crawl text or flash over live input for timely communication with your audience.
The software that manages your media elements is easily upgradeable to handle new advances in media technology as it becomes available, eliminating the cost of new computer hardware.
www.psychsoftpc.com /Psyches_Genie.htm   (301 words)

  
 FlashKit Forums Archive - [Resolved] [Resolved] [Resolved] [Resolved] [Resolved] [Resolved] [Resolved] [Resolved] ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Many search engines do not index the text and crawl the links contained within Macromedia Flash files, which means parts of the Web site can be invisible to search engines and search results will not be complete.
The ability to index text in Macromedia Flash files makes all parts of a Web site visible, yielding more accurate search results.
andquot;Atomz.com Search can index the text and crawl the links without such duplication even when the Macromedia Flash content is linked from other Macromedia Flash content.
www.flashkit.com /board/history/topic.php/7-1.html   (786 words)

  
 OcNews : Episode III crawl text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
See the crawl text for all Star Wars movies, including Episode III.
Which is a bit lame, but should make for a good movie beginning.
please note that, unlike the prequal crawls, the ones for the original trilogy not only sound like a good movie might follow them, but they also appear to have NOT been written by a six year old.
overcaffeinated.net /comments/1840   (62 words)

  
 DeCrawler video crawl software for the PC
is thread based you can adjust the crawl box speeds to match your needs.
Uses RTF files for multiple font, colors and text attributtes.
The demo version is fully functional except for random logo text that appear in the crawl text.
www.drs-digitrax.com /sdecrawler.htm   (242 words)

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