UPDATE 18/08/09:

Don’t be a plonker Rodney, there’s a MUCH better free Fixed Crawl/Text Crawl generator available now that been written by Alex Gollner (aka alex4d) ... download it from Ales’s website here:

http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/fcp-plugin-text-crawl/

Whilst you’re there take a good look through all his great (and free!) plugins.

This plug-in was written in response to a thread that developed over on my hang out at the Apple Discussions fora, where a user by the name of Besco was looking for a means to add a ticker to his edit ... I was having a quiet day so I created this Fixed Crawl generator.

Crawl speed in Apple’s Text Crawl generator is dictated by the relationship between the length of the text to display and the generator item’s duration in the timeline.  A longer string of text will obviously need to crawl much faster than a shorter string, in order to complete the crawl within the same given duration of the clip instance.

When you want or need to create multiple text crawl items that crawl with a fixed speed regardless of other factors, the this one will work a treat for you.  You’ll have to check that the generator’s timeline instance is long enough to display all the text though!