Exporting Text Movie

I've created a continuously scrolling text track in Quicktime which is to be played as an (1440x1080 / 1280x720) movie by itself, not imposed on a video track.
I have too much text to work with easily in programs like LiveType. I've got pretty much everything working in the Quicktime player itself, except that despite playing around with the positioning {textbox...}, I can't stop the text meeting the very edges of the window.
I tried to export the .mov file to FCP so that I could deal with positioning, but it's an incompatible file because it's still basically a text track. I'm also unable to export to DVD Studio Pro. I can import it into iMovie, but again the text goes right to the edges of the screen.
Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

Add an all black image file sized 1280X720 (scaled) to the entire text track movie.
Adjust the text track dimensions or scale it in the Movie Properties window to move it from the edge of the image track.

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