Creating Scrolling Titles

Hi
I have managed to get my titles to work but is there a way of adjusting the font size for some text and not the rest- it appears what ever I have done the text all has to be the same size ?
I am using FCP
David

Hey David,
Yeah, FCP's title generators are a bit limited. You can only have one size per generated block of text. You could try using the Boris Title generator, which offers a little more control (under the video generators menu as well). What I have found to be the best, though, is to use Photoshop to create a transparent TIFF file that is your whole credit sequence in one image. Then bring that into FCP and keyframe it so that it scrolls at the pace you like. Works great!
Hope that helps!
Cameron

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2) Also looking for a way to make "subtitles" that
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