Creating TV Title Sequence Help

I have created many successful tv shows using Final Cut Express, and I am embarking on the 10th season of my successful reality show.
I am introducing a new Title Sequence for the 60 opening and I need help!
I would like to know which effects and software you would suggest to best construct an opening.
I don't know if anyone has seen shows like 'Survivor' & 'Big Brother', but most of the shows in that genre take action clips and seem to change their appearance, and overlap them.
It's hard to describe, but if anyone can offer some advice that would amazing!

Most of the TV show opens can be done in FCE. If I remember rightly, there's nothing in the Survivor open that can't be reproduced pretty closely in FCE. The logo is obviously made in a graphics application, mostly likely Illustrator and/or Photoshop. The CSI show opens can all be done in FCE. Most of the 24 open can be done in FCE. The graphical element for the numbers would need something like After Effects or Motion, though you could probably do most of it in LiveType, or something that looks similar. The more graphical the open the more likely it needs a specialist compositing application.

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5046586&#5046586
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Hi Man0fst331,
Try the following:
Sign out from Creative Cloud, restart Premiere Pro, then sign in
Update any GPU drivers
Trash preferences
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Delete media cache
Remove plug-ins
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Repair permissions
In Sequence Settings > Video Previews, change the codec to one that matches your footage
Disconnect any third party hardware
If you have a CUDA GPU, ensure that the Mercury Playback Engine is set to CUDA, not OpenCL
Disable App Nap
Reboot
Report back if anything here worked for you.
Thanks,
Kevin

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http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro.html
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hi,
very very do-able in motion, even the character animation.
for the animated dash line Specialcase is your friend go here:
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hth
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It might be possible to achieve that effect without creating individual titles, however creating a stack of titles is the easiest and most strait forward way.
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2m, you are right. I should tell you about my concept. It's
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