Star Wars Opening Crawl?

What are possible ways to recreate opening crawls as used in Star Wars? I'm considering new opening crawls and in case I go down that road I want to figure out how to do it.

I believe I've read that some here have remade the crawls on their films, any ideas?

If you have a Mac, I've heard its quite easy using this HERE.

The other option is Adobe After Effects. There is a great template you can use HERE

ThrowgnCpr said:

If you have a Mac, I've heard its quite easy using this HERE

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Cool one, Throw! I'd seen the AE, but never the tutorial -- looks very simple indeed

Thanks TC, this is PERFECT!

So I've downloaded the program the SWTSG program and done a test on it, seems to work like a charm, but now I need to acquire the proper star field backdrop so that the program can impose the text over it and then have it match up with the one on the movie after the text finally disappears on its way to Earth.

Any recommendations on this? I am running FCP, and can download GIMP. I do not have Photoshop at this time (perhaps in the future, but not soon enough).

Recommendations highly welcomed

In the meantime I'll troll the FCP forums and hope I can stumble upon something.

Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind!!! All hail MPEG Streamclip!!!!