I have a video of the opening uploading to youtube as we speak. It's very slow for some reason. Will add a link when it's finished uploading.

In order to change it from panning up to panning down, I've done a freeze frame of the empty starfield for the duration of the crawl and rotated it 180 degrees along with the following shot of the pan up so it now pans down.

A new crawl will be put on top of the freeze frame - I've read before about someone having made a good template for writing crawls (was it for after effects?) Can anyone direct me to this?

And what I'm wondering about my rotated shot is it seems to have lost quality in output when compared to the unaltered shot immediately following it. Anyone got any idea why this is? Or how to rectify it?