how to make scrolling (credit-like) dvd-subs

[E-Male]

is there a (preferably free) software that allows making soft dvd subtitles that scoll up like credits?
(i'd prefer to author the final result with muxman, but it's not a must)
if it's much easier/freeer/quicker hardsubbing is also an option
[the whole thing should in the ideal case be done for valentine's day]

[InuyashaSama]

Only program to do such thing that I know of is Sony Vegas, but's it's heavy and complicated. And of course not free.

[jeanl]

It's too bad because technically it's not complicated... The scrolling can be done using DCSQT (sets of commands) timed every nth milliseconds, wich commands that update either the start y position, or the offset into the subpic data. Unfortunately, doing that by hand would be a pain...
Another way is to encode your subpics from a series of scrolled bitmaps, but that's quite wasteful...
jeanl

[tin3tin]

In the examples folder of your avisynth instalation there is a file called authors - I think it does what you're after.

Tin2tin

[johner23]

Looking for some places, I've fond some links related to that subject.

---> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=16365

---> http://www.mbigroup.it/en/products/kinetypo/

---> http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/avisynth.html

There's an interesting new meta-filter called Animate which will let you evaluate another filter with arguments which change from frame to frame. This lets you do scrolling subtitles, gradual zooming and panning, and so forth.

---> http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/dvd-slideshow.html

---> http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/Creditz-The-Movie-Credits-Generator.shtml

---> http://www.vtc.com/products/vegas5.htm ( not free program, the ink contain some guides about the subject)

---> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=15764

---> http://digitalvideosolutions.com/vegas.htm

Credit Rolls and Text Animation
With Vegas 5 software you can insert customizable text, create scrolling credits (titling), and produce 2D and 3D text animations.

If you know more programs and easier methods, put here too.

Thanks.

devil (johner)