end credits scrolling

Can someone explain to me how so make end credits scroll? I use Fraps to film with and I use Video Edit Magic to edit with.

The effect can be done quite easily if you have the right editing software. Very few allow you to do it, that are 'free'.
If you do not want to spend too much money, consider a animated GIF, moving the texture/picture in the scene that holds text. Or build layers of pictures each with a line of text, moving them each incremently into the scene, up the scene and out of the top. However, that is going to be very time consuming.

Depending on your budget, maybe try Sony Vegas, the basic editing version is quite cheap and very useable. It comes with a variety of text features like scrolling text, shadows, deformations etc.. and you will probably benefit from its many other additional features and tools.

Download a trail version and give it a go. If you do nothing else with it, make some short movies with intros and credits that you think you may need, add them to your movie sequences. When the trail runs out, you may like the programme enough to pay the fee and keep using it.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/vegasfamily.asp

OR... (here's a creative solution that could be interesting, depending on your building skills) - use fraps to record an animated texture in world. The scorlling animation is done client-side, so is smooth enough and you could even use tranparency to get an overlay text effect. Texture could be on a HUD object, allowing you to move the camera at the same time, or on an other object, different shapes/sizes/angles all will make interesting effects difficult to create in external software. - and its free to you! Just a thought, best of luck.

I'd dare say there are 100 + 1 different ways to create credits, and its perhaps right that you experiment with many 'different' ways, perhaps make one your TM. Have a line of people each holding a letter/word on a texture.. put the credits on the side of a building...

As you have a screen capture software programme (Fraps) why limit yourself to movie editing programmes or even SL to record cedits, you could just record yourself typing in say Word, using other programmes creating/showing credits would perhaps make using a editing programme look a bit restrictive lol.

There are indeed many ways to have rolling credits. If you have windows movie maker it has the option of animated credits or imovie, etc...

1. Create your entire end credit sequence as a standard HTML-based web page.

2. Use a Firefox webpage-to-image plugin to make a single vertical image out of the webpage.

3. Upload the texture and apply it to an object.

4. Use an animated texture crawl script inside of a backdrop object.

This only works for credits lists that are not a mile long.
If the source page is too long, and the image too high a res, the automatic conversion when you upload it into SL will muddy the text too much.
Some experimentation may be necessary.

However, it does let you do things like build the credits into objects, or dance avatars in front of the credits while they roll.

You can also break the superlong credits into multiple images, and have the script switch textures to the next chunk of credits and start crawling again.

You might also be able to do the same sort of texture crawl trick using a media texture set to the credits web page, if you have the ability to set a media URL on a piece of land.

To illustrate this suggestion, I would like to share one of the more moving, and powerful examples I can think of.

This post made me imagine credits in the style of this video on Digital Ethnography: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yv-UXJz1nCk