Loss of feathered edges??

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Save youir work.

The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.

Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”

Click the following link for instructions.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.

Download these free Apple Scripts at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
or
https://pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue/

This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.

[Josh Evans]

righto, will do, thanks.

[Bret Williams]

I see no feather edge tab. There is a checkbox, though. And the feathering is controlled by the border slider. As moronic as that is, that’s how it always has been.

No need to trash your prefs. That would be quite the hassle and still there would be no feather edge slider under the slider checkbox.

[Kevin Monahan]

Right, you need border to have feather.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

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The phrase in the title “Loss of feathered edges” and the OP quote of “For some reason, I have lost the ability to feather edges in my wipes…” assumes that something that had been previously working has stopped working.

Trashing Prefs has been a standard fix for anything that had been previously working… but has stopped.

If it operator error, then so be it.