"How to" Question about Text

What would be the best way or how would you get a zoom fly-by effect for the text titles seen in the intro video on this page?
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials/

I think I've actually figured a tedious way to do it involving a combination of using frame tracking with the camera from one text to the next coupled with a decelerated zoom in behavior. It's just that it's difficult to adapt the whole thing to different texts due to scaling and timing issues. Thanks for the response.

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