Star Wars title effect question

Small problem...first the good news. Text scrolling up using "Scroll up" behavior and 3d using basic 3d to give perspective.
The problem is the text at the top is way smaller than the text that emerges from the bottom at the very end. how do you compensate for this, so that all the text is the same size at the bottom and then appears to scroll into infinity?

Hey Anthony -
I do know what you're talking about - I seem to recall that the problem is that by scrolling the text up, you're changing the size and maybe the center of the layer.
IIRC, what I did was to take a large rectangle, as big as my text was gonna get (when I let it roll off the top) and put it in my layer behind the text I was scrolling. In fact, I think I used a gradient fill on that rectangle with a very soft edge at the top and used it as the mask for the text.
You could probably use a properly adjusted fixed resolution to your layer, but I wanted my method to work in both Motion 1.0 and 2.0...
Also I couldn't seem to get the amount of perspective I was looking for with the Basic3D filter, so I just used corner pin...
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