End Credits Maker
Paste your cast and crew list and get a finished scrolling credit roll - laid out, aligned and timed. Five styles, still sheet and video out.
Paste your cast and crew list and get a finished, scrolling end credit roll — laid out, aligned and timed, without touching a single text box.
Most credits tools hand you a template and leave the hard part to you: what order the names go in, how roles line up against names, keeping the spacing even when one department has twelve people and the next has one. This reads your list and sets it. You get two files back — the credits as a still sheet, and the finished scrolling video.
How to make end credits
- Paste your credits. Film title, cast, crew, thanks, production company. Rough is fine: one per line, in whatever order you already have them.
- Pick a style. Five looks, from warm serif to letterspaced sci-fi.
- Set the roll speed. Slow for a feature, Normal for most things, Fast when the cut is tight.
- Download. A still sheet and a finished credit roll.
What order do film credits go in?
This is the part people actually get stuck on, and it is convention more than rule. A standard end roll runs roughly:
- Above-the-line — director, writer, producers, executive producers.
- Principal cast, in billing or appearance order, name against role.
- Department heads — cinematographer, editor, production designer, composer, sound designer.
- Crew by department, each under its own heading: camera, art, wardrobe, hair and make-up, sound, post.
- Music — track titles, writers, publishers, licensing lines.
- Special thanks, then locations, vendors and equipment houses.
- Legal and copyright, production company logos, the year.
A short film compresses all of that down to title, cast, crew, thanks, copyright, and that is completely normal. Features are usually bound by guild and union agreements that dictate both the order and the card sizes, so check your agreements before locking a feature roll.
You do not have to sort any of this yourself. Paste the list in whatever order you have it and the layout step arranges it.
Five styles
- Classic — serif, warm white, roles in small caps. The default, and what most drama looks like.
- Modern — clean sans, light weight, wide spacing. Suits documentary and commercial work.
- Retro — bold condensed in cream and amber, like a 70s poster.
- Arthouse — thin, sparse, lowercase. Quiet and deliberate.
- Sci-Fi — letterspaced uppercase in cool blue.
Roll speed
Speed is the setting people most often get wrong. The default, 72 pixels per second, is the usual credits pace and reads comfortably at any size. Slow (48 px/s) suits a feature, where the roll is long and the audience has settled. Fast (120 px/s) is brisk — fine behind a short or a title card, uncomfortable on a long cast list.
FAQ
How do I make rolling end credits? Paste the names, pick a style and a speed, download the video. No editor, no template to fill in, no keyframing a text layer up the screen.
What order do end credits go in? Above-the-line, principal cast, department heads, crew by department, music, thanks, then legal and copyright. Shorts compress it; features follow guild agreements. The section above breaks it down.
Is there a free end credits maker? You can try this one on Mitte without paying. Each run costs credits, and new accounts start with some.
Can I use it for a YouTube video? Yes. YouTube credits are usually far shorter than a film roll — title, the two or three people involved, a thanks line. Fast speed suits that length.
Do I need to format my list first? No. Paste it rough. Sorting a mixed list into departments and aligning roles against names is exactly the step this does for you.
What do I get back? Two files: a still sheet of the credits, and a scrolling video you can drop onto the end of your edit.
Can I edit the credits afterwards? Not in place — change your pasted list and run it again. It takes seconds, which is usually faster than editing a text layer anyway.
What about music licensing lines? Include them in your pasted text and they get laid out with everything else. The tool formats what you give it; it does not know what your licences require, so get those lines from your agreements.