Key concepts

EndCreditsPro separates what your credits say from where each line goes and how it looks. The names live in one list, the Data tab. The Composition places them into scenes. Design gives them your film’s look. Because the three are kept apart, you can start collecting names on day one, long before anyone thinks about layout, and nothing has to be retyped when post begins.

Projects and sets of credits

A project is one film or one series. Its Team, Notes, Files and Approval workflow belong to the whole project.

Inside it, the work happens on a set of credits: the Main titles or the End credits. Every film has both, and in a series every episode has both (Credits for a TV series). Each set of credits has its own tabs:

Tab	What it’s for
Data	The list of every credit: who, in which role, in which department.
Composition	The order on screen: scenes, blocks and the lines inside them, with the Design panel and a live Previewer.
Approvals	The sign-off run for this set of credits.
Renders	The videos you’ve rendered, and new ones.
History	Every version and who changed what.

Each set of credits is independent: its own list, composition, comments, approvals, renders and history. A name that appears in both the main titles and the end credits is entered in each.

Data: entries and groups

The Data tab has four tabs, one per kind of credit: Crew, Cast, Music and Text.

• An entry is one credit line: a role (on Cast, the Character; on Music, the Track) and one or more names under it (the Actor, the Artist). “Executive Producers” with three names is one entry.
• A group is how you sort the entries, usually by department: DIRECTION, CAMERA, ART, or cast tiers such as REGULARS and GUEST CAST. A group belongs to one tab. Entries in no group sit under Ungrouped. Deleting a group doesn’t delete its entries: they move to Ungrouped.
• Each entry has a status, To review or Verified, which records who verified it and when, and can be locked so its role and names can’t be edited. Status and lock help you manage the list; they don’t change what appears on screen.

Groups are also the unit you send out: a head of department fills in one group (Let the departments fill it in), a reviewer checks the spelling of one group (Get the spelling right).

One name, in one place

Every name is written once, in its entry. The Composition doesn’t hold a copy: it points to the entry. So:

• Correct a name anywhere, and it’s correct everywhere. Editing a name in the Data tab or in the Composition changes the same entry.
• One entry can appear more than once. You can place the same line in several blocks (a producer in the opening cards and again in the crawl); it’s still one entry. The Appearances column in the Data tab counts the placements.
• “Not shown” marks an entry that isn’t placed anywhere yet, so it won’t appear in the final credits. That’s normal in pre-production.
• Deleting an entry removes it from every block where it was placed. If it’s in use, the app asks first.
• Removing a line from the Composition (Remove from composition) only takes it off the screen; the entry stays in the Data tab.

Composition: scenes, blocks and placements

The Composition is the order of your credits on screen:

• Scenes play one after another. A scene is a Card, which holds on screen for a set time, or a Scroll, which crawls.
• Blocks sit inside scenes. A block has a type, Cast, Crew, Music, Text or Image, and lists the entries placed in it, in order. You place entries by dragging them from the Data list onto a block of the same type.
• Image blocks (logos, for example) live only in the Composition: they aren’t entries and don’t appear in the Data tab.
• You can hide a name in one block (Hide name in this block) without deleting it, for example when a person is credited elsewhere in that scene. The name stays in the entry and in every other placement.

You don’t have to build it by hand: Generate composition lays out the whole list for you, then you adjust it. → Build the crawl

Design: styles that cascade

The Design panel sets how everything looks, on five levels. Each level inherits from the one above unless you override it:

Level	What it styles
Global defaults	Every scene of this set of credits: fonts, sizes, colors, spacing, timing. Shown when nothing is selected.
Scene	One scene, for example a card that needs a bigger title.
Block	One block inside a scene.
Item	One credit line, in this placement only.
Subitem	One name, in this placement only.

Because styles at the Item and Subitem level belong to the placement, the same entry can look different in two places: large on an opening card, small in the crawl. The panel shows where each value comes from (“from default”, or the level it’s inherited from). → Inherit and override · Design properties

Comments: on the content or on the layout

A comment is attached to what you clicked:

• A comment on a credit line or a name is about the content. It follows the entry: you see it in the Data tab and on every placement of that line, and it survives when you reorganize the scenes.
• A comment on a scene or a block is about the layout, and stays with that scene or block.

→ Comments and review links

The lifecycle

The same list travels through the whole production. Each moment uses a different part of the app:

Moment	What you do	Where	Guides
Pre-production	Create the project, add the team, jot down names as people sign	Team, Data	Day one, Import your crew lists
Shoot	Heads of department fill in their groups; names get verified	Data	Department requests, Spelling review
Post-production	Lay the names out, give them your film’s look	Composition, Design	Build the crawl, Global styles and fonts
Picture lock	Feedback, review links, formal sign-off	Comments, Approvals, History	Feedback, Sign-off, History
Delivery	Render the video, or export the list for the edit	Renders, Export credits	Render the credits, Export for the edit

You can enter at any moment: a production already in post can import its lists or start from a finished film and carry on from there.