Rolling Credits by SUGARfx is a Final Cut Pro X plug-in that generates some really nice credits to add at the end of your film projects. In full disclosure, I recently tried out this plug-in for a new project I’m working on thanks to a free license from SUGARfx. In this Final Cut Pro X plug-in review, I’ll be telling you a few of the quick pros and cons about the plug-in so that you can decide whether or not you’d like to drop the $49 on a new FCPX plug-in, or just continue to create credits with the built-in generators that come with FCPX. (Read more Final Cut Pro X reviews here).

First off, I like Rolling Credits because the credits look sharp. Aside from price, user interface, etc., the credits simply look good. See below for more detailed pros and cons:

Pros:

• 12 layouts offer a diversity of visual options.
• Each layout is highly customizable, allowing for changes to motion, color, gradient, motion blur, etc.
• As I mentioned, these Final Cut Pro X credits just look good.

Cons:

• The interface is a little bit more complicated than it needs to be.
• Importing your credits text also seems more complicated than it needs to be, although this may be the fault of Final Cut Pro X and its limitations. I have to type [TTL] before the title, for instance, which isn’t a huge pain, but seems a little bit old school for a 2012 version of a Final Cut Pro X plug-in.
• For what you get as a user, I think a $29 price point would be a little better than the $49 sticker price.

 

 

 

Below is the video tutorial for the plug-in, produced by SUGARfx themselves: