Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 741)

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11 Open the background clip on track V1, then click its Motion tab. Click the Opacity
disclosure triangle, then set the opacity to 50 percent.
Now you have your completed composite: three clips layered, cropped, scaled, and
rotated, with edges feathered.
Creating Motion Effects in the Canvas
In the previous section, you learned about default motion parameters for clips and how
to adjust those settings in the Motion tab of the Viewer. The motion settings of
sequence clips can also be manipulated directly in the Canvas.
Choosing the Image+Wireframe Mode
If you want to adjust a clip’s motion settings in the Canvas, the Canvas must be in the
Image+Wireframe mode. When the Canvas is in Image+Wireframe, the currently
selected clip has a turquoise border that shows its scale, position, rotation, distortion,
and cropping, if any are applied, and you also see the clip’s image.
The background clip now
appears darker in the
Canvas.
Selected clip in
Image+Wireframe mode