Premiere Elements 11: Creating horizontal scrolling caption on black background over video

[martinund]

I want to run a horizontal black bar near the bottom of the video frame in which a horizontally scrolling caption appears.

The sequence should look like this:

- plain video

- horizontal bar appears across full width of screen, near bottom

- text starts to scroll from right to left across the screen

- when the last character of the text has disappeared off the screen, the black bar disappears

[martinund]

This is an example of what I want to achieve Brewery Junction to Ashburys via Phillips Park and back - YouTube​ - my question posted itself automatically while I was searching for the example on Youtube 🙂

[Bill Sprague]

1.  Add a "Black Video to Video 2

2.  Crop the "Black Video"

3.  Put a "Default Crawl" title on Video 3

4.  Optionally the Opacity of the Black Video can be adjusted for some "see through".

[P1965]

Hi whsprague, just curious if could you do this with a black color matte as well?

[Bill Sprague]

P1965  wrote
Hi whsprague, just curious if could you do this with a black color matte as well?

Probably, but I've not got much practice with color mattes.   If you have an alternative method, please describe it!

Bill

[Peru Bob]

P1965  wrote
 just curious if could you do this with a black color matte as well?

Yes, you can.

[Bill Sprague]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Peru+Bob  wrote
P1965   wrote
 just curious if could you do this with a black color matte as well?

Yes, you can.

OK Bob.... Now I gotta go figure out color mattes!!!

[P1965]

I've used color mattes for backgrounds quite often, since the color choices are virtually unlimited.  A great alternative to a black background. Even used multiples coupled with multiple images in the video track to create cool effects.