Putting a "bug" on a lower third

I want to put a logo of an organization on the left side of a lower-third bar with font. I can construct it, but can you save it as a composite element?
Thanks,
Rob

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!!!).
Most of them are about FCP X, and also many of them are about Motion, of which Mark Spencer is the expert. I never miss my weekly fix :-)
There is also the "Under 5 Minutes" series, for both Motion and FCP X.
2) A really good way to start with Motion is to make changes to already existing templates. In your case, take a lower third that most resembles what you want, control-click in FCP X and choose "Open a Copy in Motion". If the text part of the title is how you want it, you may just have to add the logo to it, give a nice name, choose a Category (I suggest you create your own), save, and it will be there for you without even having to quit and restart FCP X.

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