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# Conductors

Build graphics that animate themselves — crawls, rolls, and leaderboards — using Captivate’s Conductor system.

A Conductor is a tool that takes a group of elements in a graphic, makes multiple unique copies of them, and — depending on the type — animates those copies to produce a particular behavior, from crawls and rolls to animated leaderboards. The Crawl Conductor scrolls a ticker horizontally, the Roll Conductor scrolls credits vertically, and the Leaderboard Conductor renders a ranked, self-sorting list.

## Designing with Conductors

Build and tune each conductor type in the Designer:

* [Crawl Conductor](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-5/crawl-conductor.md) — use this when configuring a horizontal ticker.
* [Roll Conductor](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-5/roll-conductor.md) — use this when configuring a vertical roll.
* [Leaderboard Conductor](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-5/leaderboard-conductor.md) — use this when configuring a ranked-list graphic.

## Using Conductors

Once a conductor is built, drive it with data at runtime:

* [Crawls Controller](/play-and-update-graphics/chapter-index-1/crawls-controller.md) — feed a crawl from a Tables source at runtime.
* [Leaderboard Controller](/play-and-update-graphics/chapter-index-1/leaderboard-controller.md) — feed a leaderboard from a Tables source at runtime.


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