Final Cut Pro is much more than an video editing program. You have at your disposal hundreds of filters you can apply to your clips and you can buy countless others produced by different companies. All these effects are housed in the Menu Bar’s Effects menu. But there’s another effect that isn’t available from there called "composite mode." Essentially, they’re designed to control how one layer of video affects another. We’ll be showing you how they work in this video tutorial by creating a backdrop for your lower-third title that fades to the right of the screen.
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