Text Effect Advice – FCPX

[Mark Suszko]

Change your blending mode, it is next to the opacity level control.

[Harriet Allen]

I can’t seem to see it?

[Bret Williams]

Actually looks like the background is inside the text, but offset vertically (or perhaps in time if the camera is moving around). The video within the text is brighter somewhat.

Duplicate the background and nest it in a compound clip with the text. Inside the compound, make sure the text is above the background and for the text’s blending mode in the inspector choose stencil alpha. That puts the background inside the text. Choose the background video layer and change it’s brightness and position. Go back to the main comp and check out the result and adjust to taste.

[Harriet Allen]

Thank You, I’ll try that.