How do you add plain text?

Hi all!
I have a very simple question, which is just what it says in the subject line of this topic.
How do I add plain text into iMovie? No fades, no slides, no nothing, just plain text?
From what I've been searching online, no one has answered this question, but then again, no one has asked it either.
All I could find was 1 yahoo thread with the question in which the answer was not clear at all.
I've been trying to find it myself by snooping around in iMovie, but as you might guess, unsuccessfully.
From snooping around I've come to draw the conclusion that you probably can't add plain text into iMovie via iMovie directly.
However, and idea I had was, if I create an image in, lets say Paint 2, with whatever plain text I want to add, and then insert it into the project. Will this have the same effect?
Can anyone please confirm this? I'm going crazy just looking for such a simple feature hehehe.
Thank you in advance!
//cez

hmm, well ... a video isn't meant for reading (resolution, compression, blabla). ...
so 'text' in a video should be very large in font, avoid tiny details, too much contrasts ... blabla again
Advice using the Title-feature as 'text' isn't wrong.
plus, iMovie is no text-processor, you copy/paste larger amounts of letters into it.
If you need/want 'a page full of text' in iMovie, indeed you have to do the roundtrip by creating a 'picture' of your text-page, and insert that jpg to your Project.
The good news:
if your 'picture (=text page) is longer than the video screen, you can apply a nice Ken Burns effect to 'scroll' through the text ... in case, your audience reads as fast as you.
bad news: max is 5:1 ratio of the 'page' ... so, no 'books' please ...
Aside Star Wars ("... in a galaxy far, far away from here"), you should avoid 'text' longer than a usual title.
(this answer/workaround isn't in the 'canned' replies of our hosts, you should forgive'em ... )

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