Editing scrolling text

hi on earth do we make a decent scrolling title with the tools given to us with FCP? I use fcp's "scrolling text" and it looks fine. BUT i can't change individual lines to a different color - it changes all the color. ie i have white scrolling text and i need one line to be yellow so i change it and it changes the whole page to yellow.
I tried the onboard boris titler and i can edit individual lines with diff color, font etc BUT the text scrolls jittery even with the deflicker turn ON. I've never been able to get boris to work for me on scrolling text. And yes, i'm looking at it on a studio HD monitor (pana 17") SDI with an hd timeline.
thanks for any input.

If you have FCS2, then your best bet might be to use Motion.
Quoting ThatChineesYouth:
Type up your credits in Text editor... spaces and paragraphs as necessary.
In motion, select the text tool and click in the canvas. Then copy and paste the text
into the text box.. then Add Behavior>Text Animations>Scroll up.
then adjust the position off set till the text is off screen to the bottom...
then go to the end time and adjust the rate till your text has scrolled up off screen...
and there you have it... I think -_-'

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Enfocus PitStop Pro, a plugin for Acrobat, allows manual and automatic editing of PDF files, while the free Enfocus Browser makes it possible to edit the low-level structure of a PDF.
In Acrobat you should use the TouchUp Text Tool.
But in the end, PDF-files are not made for editing.

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