Title on scrolling credits

I checked to see if this was answered, but I didn't see it anywhere. I'm trying to make some scrolling credits, but I want to put a title above the list. Something like "Cast (in order of appearance)" and then list the cast. I don't want a separate scrolling title for this because I have to wait until that clears before the credits start rolling. I just want to have it on top of the list. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Mac Mini Intel Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMovie 6.0.3

Hi Diana - there is no 'one-click' answer, but it is possible to almost do what you want.
1. Create a centred title (with the 'over black' box ticked, and set to its longest duration) with the words you want, and in the preview click on the words and drag them to the top of the window.
2. Trim off the ends of this clip to remove the fade-in/fade-out of the text.
3. Copy and Paste this clip as many times as needed for the scrolling (which you will now add to these clips).
4. Although you can now use the scrolling title option, its short-coming is that it will scroll over the title at the top of the page). In my experiment I used the Far Far Away title. Type in the cast etc, and choose a duration to last as long as your combined title clips. De-select 'over black', and apply this by dragging its blue 'T' to the front of the previously-created title clips.
5. It may be worth changing the colour of the scrolling text for added effect.
See how that goes. You will need to experiment. Make the whole thing longer than you at first imagine it needs to be, as the scrolling travels quite quickly otherwise.

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Bryan,
I attempted to adjust the white level, the field order, but don't think ever got to messing around with FCP's processing settings...I am actually encoding the film right now as I was under the gun and actually found the "scroll" plugin in FCP to work just as good if not better than Motion without any tweaking so had to roll wth that. I will attempt to tweak the Motion file again though as I cannot bear sub-par credits. Will also email you the Motion file if you don't mind.

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