Animating a stream of images

Perhaps this can be done as easily in FCPHD as Motion 2, not sure. Trying to take a couple hundred images and move them across the screen smoothly. Picture a stream of images running left to right on the upper 3rd of screen, a stream moving right to left in middle, and another stream running left to right on bottom of screen. I can scale a single image, apply basic motion to get it to move on and off the screen as I desire, but is there any way to duplicate this across many hundreds of images without having to carefully keyframe the movement so that one image immediately follows the other, etc.
Please let me know if my intentions are not clear.

Thank you both for answers. I tried the make movie version recommended by Patrick. Scaled appropriately and set emission angle and range to zero, then played with the life and birth rate to get the images to last across screen and to be sequenced properly. Tried the image sequence as well. In both cases there is a phenomena that I cannot seem to correct. I am playing with birth rate, life, etc., but I don't seem to get all of the images in my image sequnce or quicktime movie, and often I get a duplicate image right in a row. Any advice? I am sure it is a tweaking of the settings, but I've been tweaking for a couple of hours now with no success.

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