Creating non-scrolling credits

I'm trying to create titles for my project in FCPX - it's possible that I just have to buy Motion, as the tools here seem so few. But I'm reluctant to experiment with a new program interface at this stage. Anyway, I'm trying to create a simple, old-fashioned, non-scrolling credit title card, with actors on one side of the card and character names on the other. I can't find any way to create or align text fields within titles in FCPX. Should I be looking for Motion templates to import? My first evening of searches didn't turn anything up. Or maybe I should just buy Motion and hope that everything goes smoothly?
While I'm asking questions: I still haven't figured out how to make sure that a second title card has the same color as the first one. Maybe this is easy....
Thanks. - Dan

Do you want to do something like this?
I did this by adding a generator to the timeline and then adding the Continuous title. Using the same generator clip for a second card would give the same color. Turn off the build in and out in the inspector if you do not wanrt that. Anyway play around in the title section of the inspector to gget the look and spacing you want.

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To start, I am creating scrolling credits from scratch in Motion 2 to import into my NTSC-DV FCP5 session.
I had accomplished beautiful scrolling credits in Motion to FCP about 6 months ago and cannot for the life of me produce good looking scrolling credits again! I have gone through this forum and there are about 100 different ideas out there...export using the animation codec with "render fields" selected, simply import the Motion session into FCP and render it, use large fonts, use the "scroll up" behavior, use keyframing... I have even tried After Effects which was WAY easier than Motion but produced similar fluttering effects.
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1) Open an NTSCDV session in Motion
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5) I then move to the end of the "Scroll Up" layer in the timeline (which is 30 seconds long BTW), add another keyframe in the "Scroll Up" layer and slide the "Position Offset" slider so that my text has just disappeared at the top of my screen.
6) I drag the cursor through the 30 second roll in the timeline verifying that it scrolls up the way I want.
7) I ensure the project properties are set correctly before I save. This includes making sure the field order is set to "Lower" in the "General" tab, and in the "Render Settings" tab making sure the output antialiasing method is set to "Best" and that "Use dithering" IS checked. In the Motion Blur setting the samples are set to "8" and the shutter angle is set to 360.
8) I then save the project, import the project file into my FCP NTSCDV session, drag it to the timeline, render it, and playback to an external monitor.
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1) I am thinking that maybe the text is scrolling up too slow and it is impossible to get clean text without the jagged/fluttering effect. As when I shorten the scroll to 20 seconds there is less of a fluttering effect (but it is impossible to read the text as it is scrolling up so fast)
2) There is some "Project Property" setting in Motion that I have messed up.
3) I should not be using the scroll up feature with keyframing but perhaps just keyframing the actual text itself to move up? (although I have tried this with worse results)
I have wasted hours trying different routes, reading the manual, searching this forum, to no avail. Who has the magic recipe I am looking for? Please help.
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I attempted to adjust the white level, the field order, but don't think ever got to messing around with FCP's processing settings...I am actually encoding the film right now as I was under the gun and actually found the "scroll" plugin in FCP to work just as good if not better than Motion without any tweaking so had to roll wth that. I will attempt to tweak the Motion file again though as I cannot bear sub-par credits. Will also email you the Motion file if you don't mind.

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