Can i use split screen on Final Cut Express

Hey everyone again!
so i am about to write the credits on a movie i am making but was just wondering if i could split the screen so that i would have footage playing on the top half of the screen and the credits running along the bottom half of the screen??? or vise versa!.
It doesn't matter if i can't have the titles scrolling but as long as i can have titles on one half of the screen!
many thanks.

You can use Title Crawl and either make it scrawl along the bottom of the screen if that's what you want or use the roll function to make it move up the screen. There is masking in Title Crawl which will fade it out as it moves up the screen if you want.

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