[Drayson Nowlan]

Is there aFCP or other solution for this effect? I have a project that could benefit from this.

[Drayson Nowlan]

Thank you all for the input but I am still at odds and think I may know what is going on.

Backing up. I have a picture of a boy leaning on a roof with cedar shingles. i am trying to get his name to appear as it is coming out from under the shingle. To do this i have a text track in v3 with the text distorted to match the angle of the roof. I then have a mask in v2 that masks the roof line where the text comes out from under. I then have the photo in v1. What I think is occurring is the alpha of the text is overlapping the alpha in the mask when I apply the alpha properties to the text. Is there a way to tell FCP not to mix them? Or I must be missing something.

Thank you again

[Drayson Nowlan]

Thank you all for the input. Where I seem to missing something whether I use the 50 point garbage matte or crop or Motion is that if I apply the matte to the text, the matte stays in the same position as the text. So I tried to create a matte on the top level to block out the layers below, but I get no results. I just see a matte with no affect. This is selecting add, subtract, invert, etc. Basically I need the picture to be unaffected, but the text to be invisible as it passes under the matte.

I would consider myself somewhat competent, but this one has got me.

Thanks,

Drayson