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How to apply an effect only to the opaque area of a clip in FCPX?

For example, say that in FCP I have a solid generator and on top of that I design an alpha mask.

Then, I want to apply e.g. the border effect but I only want it to be applied to the border of the mask.

How to do that?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.1

Posted on Nov 19, 2023 6:05 AM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2023 9:04 AM

I've published the Motion filter Stroke for this purpose:

https://fcpxtemplates.com/sdm_downloads/stroke-effect/


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Effects are "layer ordered", so where in the list of effects it appears will determine how it behaves. You can always click-drag effects to change the order in which they appear in the list.

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Nov 19, 2023 8:30 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Sure thing!


As you see there is a generator with a corner mask. Nothing special really.

Then, I applied a Simple Border effect.

However, the effect is not applied only to the opaque part but it is applied to the whole clip.

In this example, I wish the Simple Border to be applied only to the surrounding of the resulting shape.


Nevertheless, in general, I wish to understand how to apply effects only to masked parts.


How to apply an effect only to the opaque area of a clip in FCPX?

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