Inherit and override

Styles in EndCreditsPro flow downwards. You set them once in the global defaults, and every scene, block, line and name follows. When one part has to look different, you override that setting at that level only: everything else keeps following the global defaults, and later changes to them still reach it.

Before you start

• You need to be an admin or editor on the project to change the design.
• Set the overall look first in Credits movie (the global defaults): see Global styles and fonts.

The levels

Each level inherits from the one above it:

Level	What you select in the Composition panel	What it can change
Global	Credits movie	Everything: the defaults for the whole credits
Scene	A scene’s header (Scene 1, Scene 2…)	Its timing and background, and the styles of every block inside it
Block	A block’s header (DIRECTION, CAMERA…)	Its columns, width, margins and the styles of its lines
Line	One credit line in a block	Its layout, its list of names and its text styles
Name	One name under a line	Its own text style

Timing and background belong to scenes, and columns and margins to blocks, so they stop at that level. Text styles go all the way down to a single name. You can also click a credit in the Previewer to select it.

Steps

1. See where a value comes from

Select a scene or a block and open any section in the Design panel. Under the name of each setting, a small note tells you where its value comes from:

• from Global: set in the global defaults;
• from a scene or block name: set on a level above this one;
• from default: nobody has set it, so the app’s default applies.

When there is no note, this level owns the value.

2. Override a setting

1. Select the scene, block, line or name you want to change.
2. Find the setting in the Design panel. Its control is greyed out while it’s inherited.
3. Tick the checkbox at its left (Override + the setting’s name).
4. Give it a new value.

The note disappears, because this level now owns the value. The section’s header shows a count of the settings you’ve overridden in it, and the group (Cast, Crew…) adds up its sections, so you can spot what’s been customised without opening everything.

To change one department only, select its block. In the example below, the CAMERA block gets its own role colour, while the font, weight and size still come from Global.

3. Go back to the inherited value

Untick the override checkbox. The setting follows the level above it again, and the note comes back.

4. Clear overrides from a higher level

When scenes or blocks below override a setting, the setting shows a warning at the higher level: a tree icon, the number, and Clear (“2 descendants are overriding this property”). Click Clear to remove that override from all of them at once, so they follow this level again.

Styles for one placement

A line or a name keeps its overrides in the block where you set them. If the same credit is placed in two blocks, each placement has its own style: making a name bold in the end crawl doesn’t change it on its card. The text of the name is still shared, so a spelling fix reaches both.