I've been fiddling around in After Effects with this, but I based my crawl text on a "flattened" version of the ESB crawl that included "Episode V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK." As such, it seems that the text isn't long enough to work without the episode tag/title.

Also, I'm doing this using Adywan's ANH as a guide, as my GOUT copy isn't on me at the moment. This might also be part of the problem.

Here's my request/question: Does anyone have a perspective-corrected version of the pre-ANH opening crawl? It would look something like this one, but, obviously, pre-ANH:

http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/postproduction/crawl/crawl-04-anh.gif

My other question: How do I make the crawl "disappear" the way it does in the films in After Effects (I'm using CS4)? I figured out how to get the main logo to dissolve, but it appears that the crawl itself doesn't dissolve uniformly (that is, the upper portions fade earlier than the lower portions). How would I do that in After Effects, for anyone knowledgeable in that subject area?