Editing the "Far Far away" title in iMovie

I was wondering is there any way to slow down the word in the "Far Far Away" title with out changing the time of the whole title?

thesurgwithmac wrote:
I was wondering is there any way to slow down the word in the "Far Far Away" title with out changing the time of the whole title?
the 'speed' is determined by 'amount-of-text x length':
lots of words x 3 secs length = speeeedy
few words x 44 secs length = sloooooow

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3310 but you have 10.6.8. So this shouldn't apply. But just in case.
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Thanks. I did try this and it slowed the scroll down. There is still a residual problem which is there is a certain amount of blank screen at the end. I thought slowing the scroll would fill this dead spot. By lengthening the duration of the title, the scroll is now slower, but the black screen has also lengthened.The current dead time is now the final 6 seconds of a 25 second title. Any help on cutting out the dead scrren time. If this were a straight video clip I would simply trim it away. Any way to get the scrolling text to fill more than 80% of the title duration?

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Thanks for the reply Russ.
Yes, I've considered adding titles and/or generators in the FCPX storyline, but this creates a need to render the entire timeline. As I'm juggling library locations and hard drive spaces I just didn't want to add a new render that will occupy a lot of space. It's also a bit of visual clultter for me, so my goal is to find the best workflow for adding this stuff on or after export.

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