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Short Films & Documentaries
Full cast and crew rolls with sections, dividers, and festival laurels. Import the production spreadsheet and generate a roll that fits your exact runtime.
After Effects Extension
Credits
Professional credit rolls, built inside After Effects. Import a spreadsheet, pick a template, watch the live preview, and generate a finished comp in seconds.
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Get It in the Studio Included with your Filmit Studio subscription
Credits v1.0
Template Hollywood Classic 1:30
Speed
120 px/s
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See Credits in Action
From a blank spreadsheet to a finished credit roll in After Effects.
The Problem
Credits are the last thing standing between you and delivery.
And After Effects makes you build them by hand, one text layer at a time.
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One Layer at a Time
Building credits manually means a text layer per line, eyeballed spacing, and alignment that drifts the longer the roll gets. An hour of typing for something nobody should ever notice.
✓ Credits: add rows or import a sheet, generate the whole roll at once
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Last-Minute Name Changes
The final credit list always lands after picture lock. A new producer here, a corrected spelling there, and suddenly you're re-spacing the entire roll by hand at midnight.
✓ Credits: re-import the spreadsheet and regenerate in seconds
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Judder and Guesswork
Rolling credits stutter when the scroll speed fights the frame rate. And hitting an exact duration, like 90 seconds for broadcast, takes trial and error with keyframe math.
✓ Credits: Fit snaps the speed to a judder-free value that lands on your duration
Features
Spreadsheet in. Finished comp out.
Everything between your credit list and the final roll, handled in one panel.
Seven Built-In Templates
Hollywood Classic, Modern Minimal, Cinematic, Documentary, Indie, Music Video, and Corporate. Tweak any of them and save your own looks under My Styles.
Spreadsheet In, Spreadsheet Out
Import Excel or CSV, or paste straight from a sheet. Grab the included templates with a row-type dropdown, and export your credits back out for bulk edits.
Scrolling Rolls & Card Sequences
The classic rolling crawl, or episodic-TV card credits with one section per screen and fades between. Sections too tall for one card split automatically.
Live Preview & Fit-to-Duration
Play, scrub, and time the roll before you generate. Type a target length and hit Fit: the speed snaps to a judder-free value that lands exactly on it, with start and end holds.
Total Typography Control
Separate font, size, and weight for title cards, headings, roles, and names. Line spacing, column gap, colors, divider styles, and a transparent background option for overlays.
Logos, Pictures & Video
Thirteen row types, from role-and-name credits to groups with up to 8 columns of names, plus logos, still images, and video clips dropped right into the roll.
Deep Dive
See how it works.
The three things that make Credits feel effortless.
Spreadsheet Workflow
Your credit list already lives in a spreadsheet. Keep it there.
Click Excel Template and you get a starter sheet with a row-type dropdown built into column A. Fill it in, import it, and the whole roll appears. When names change, edit the sheet and re-import.
- Import Excel, CSV, or paste straight from any sheet
- Export your current credits back out for bulk edits
- Save JSON backs up rows, style, fonts, and timing in one file
- Docs autosave on your machine as you type
Import Excel Imported 142 rows
Scroll & Cards
The classic roll, or episodic card credits.
Scroll mode is the rolling crawl with full speed control. Card mode shows one section per screen with fades, like episodic TV credits. Your sections define the cards, and anything too tall splits across screens with its header repeated.
- Fit to a target duration with judder-free speed snapping
- Start and end holds for mixing into your edit
- Set seconds per card in card mode
- 720p, 1080p, 4K, vertical, or fully custom comps at any frame rate
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Fonts & Preview Parity
What you preview is exactly what generates.
The panel preview renders with the same font face After Effects resolves, so there are no surprises after you hit Generate. Four of the seven templates use fonts that ship with every Mac and PC, so you can start with zero installs.
- Live font check in the panel: installed, via alias, or missing
- Smart aliases (Helvetica Neue resolves to Neue Haas Grotesk on Windows)
- Never silently substitutes decorative cuts for body text
- Every font picker also offers your full installed library
Font Check
Use Cases
Every project ends with credits.
From festival shorts to weekly uploads, the last 90 seconds shouldn't take a day.
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YouTube & Podcast Outros
Card-style end credits for episodic content, plus group rows that fit dozens of supporter or patron names in clean columns.
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Client & Event Work
Corporate videos, weddings, and event recaps with logos and photos in the roll. Use the transparent background to lay credits over your final shot.
Setup
From credit list to finished comp in four steps.
No keyframes, no text-layer wrangling, no math.
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Install via Studio
Download the Filmit Studio and install Credits with one click. It appears in your AE Extensions menu.
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Add Your Credits
Type rows directly in the panel, paste from a sheet, or import an Excel or CSV file built on the included template.
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Style & Preview
Pick a template, adjust the typography, and scrub the live preview. Type a target duration and hit Fit.
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Generate
A finished comp lands in a Credits folder in your project, matching the preview exactly. Tweak it in AE freely.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Four of the seven templates (Corporate, Hollywood Classic, Cinematic, and Indie) use fonts that ship with every Mac and PC, so they work immediately. For the full designed look of the other templates, you install a few fonts from Adobe Fonts (included with Creative Cloud) or Google Fonts (free). The panel shows a live check of which fonts are on your machine, and our font setup guide walks through the whole thing in a few minutes.
Yes. Credits exports Excel and CSV starter templates with a row-type dropdown built in, and imports them back with one click. You can also paste directly from a spreadsheet, and export your current credits back out for bulk editing. For full backups (rows plus styling, fonts, and timing), use Save JSON.
Both. Scroll mode is the classic rolling crawl, with a Fit button that snaps the speed to a judder-free value landing exactly on your target duration. Card mode shows one section per screen with fades, like episodic TV credits. Sections too tall for one screen split automatically and repeat their header.
Yes. The panel preview renders with the exact font face After Effects resolves, so the generated comp matches what you saw. Generating creates a fresh comp in a Credits folder each time and never touches your old comps. The result is real After Effects text layers, so you can keep editing it like anything else in your project.
Thirteen row types: role-and-name credits, section headers, title cards, single lines, doubles, triples, quads, groups (one role with up to 8 columns of names, perfect for VFX teams and thank-you lists), spacers, dividers, logos, still images, and video clips.
Yes. Credits is included with your Filmit Studio subscription at no extra cost. Download Filmit Studio, install Credits from the tools list, and start building your roll. All updates are automatic.