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Raesene
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Star Wars opening crawl for RPG

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My RPG-group and I will start a Star Wars campaign in a few weeks, and I wanted to provide an opening crawl introduction for each session. While I found a how-to guide for Powerpoint 2003 online, the text is too fast to read even on very slow if I don't want to animate every line separately (Besides, that looks stupid).
Has anyone here tried something similar before ? A link to a small free program that imitates the crawl or telling me how to increase the animation time above the maximum five seconds in Powerpoint 2003 would be appreciated.

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Raesene wrote:My RPG-group and I will start a Star Wars campaign in a few weeks, and I wanted to provide an opening crawl introduction for each session. While I found a how-to guide for Powerpoint 2003 online, the text is too fast to read even on very slow if I don't want to animate every line separately (Besides, that looks stupid).
Has anyone here tried something similar before ? A link to a small free program that imitates the crawl or telling me how to increase the animation time above the maximum five seconds in Powerpoint 2003 would be appreciated.
I only know expensive programs that could do it, like Aftereffects. I'm not aware of a cheap one.
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You could run a ton of other crap in the background on your machine and use up most of your active memory. That would slow it down.
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Found a way - Windows moviemaker has the SW opening crawl as option for credits. I tested it and it looks acceptable, and I could even add the appropriate music.

I'm a happy GM now :-)

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"All you have to do is to look at Northern Ireland, [...] to see how seriously the religious folks take "thou shall not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable." George Carlin

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I'm sure there's free screensavers out there that can simulate the effect.
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