OFP uses two 'channels' for text and resources.
Title, and cut.
If you paw through the comref, you'll see there is:
titletext
titlecut
and:
cuttext
cutrsc.
I suggest using the binocs with cutrsc, and your text/sound with titletext. The only difference between them is that a fade out (cuttext) will blank out anything in the 'cut' channel, but not in the title channel