Lower Third - Bar & Solid

I'm trying to use both a Bar and a Solid behind my lower third name supers. On pg. 188 of T. Wolsky's FCE 3.5.5 book,Tom says, "You could, however, add another Lower Third beneath it, with no text, just the background, as shown in Figure 11.14".
My question is how do you create that solid bar beneath the existing text with "bar" selected. I want to combine both to get the Bar & background, please.
Thanks,
Karl

Make a new video track and add the solid bar to it. (Sequence -> Insert Tracks) Place one lower thirds directly about the other. You might need to adjust the opacity on the video track to get the look you want.
Ross Hunter
Orange, VA

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I thought I'd provide a little follow up. As I was trying to figure out why my STP export wasn't working right, I stumbled into a setting under sequence that led to this problem. My sequence setting was accidently set to NTSC DV 3:2. When I switched to NTSC 4:3, the screen tightened up ever so slightly, and the gap on the edges of the bar disappeared. Also, the resolution of the type and graphics within the Lower Third when from jagged to perfect!
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What Karsten said.
Just to add a few ideas about Motion:
1) Always nice to follow MacBreak Studio, a weekly video (posted on youtube and other places) by Steve Martin and Mark Spencer, of rippletraining (over 300 episodes by now!!!).
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