Larger text blocks

Is there a way to have more than 2 lines of text appear on a single clip? I have a project that requires a bunch of text to appear on individual clips and as far as I can tell HD only allows 2 text lines to appear at once. Can anyone help me?

rewl,
The Music Video title allows for multiple lines. As long as you don't mind it left or right justified at the bottom of the picture.
Scrolling Block will also allow multiple lines. As long as you don't mind the text to be scrolling.
If those don't do it for you, you should take a look at third party plugins. Gee Three has one called Place Text. It's part of the Slick Volume 5.
http://www.geethree.com/
cf/x makes a plugin called Simple Caption that could work as well.
http://www.imovieplugins.com/index.html
Gee Three sells their plugins in sets while cf/x offers them á la carte.
Matt

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Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 declare
2    v_clob clob;
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Chris:
For context, I've pasted in the "explain error" output from LabVIEW to refer to while we work on this. More after the code...
Error -200290 occurred at an unidentified location
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