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Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.1.2) User Manual

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Chapter 9

Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators 

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Do one of the following:

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Add a clip to the Timeline as a connected clip and then add the effect to that clip.
This places the clip above the primary storyline clip, which automatically becomes the
effect’s background.

A clip that’s composited

over the primary storyline

The clip in the primary

storyline that is the

background

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If the clip is already in the primary storyline, drag it above the primary storyline, positioning it
over the clip you want to be the background.

The result is a composited image.

The Transform and Trim effects

were used to composite this

image over the background.

For more information about working with connected clips, see

Add storylines

on page 277. For

more information about compositing clips, see

Compositing overview

on page 372.

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