Busted. Matt, you caught me. I pride myself in only using the Final Cut suite for every tutorial I’ve ever created, with the exception of the screen capture software. There are only two times I’ve used some other software to create an effect and this is one of them. That page peel was created in After Effects, which comes standard with a killer page peel filter that lets you adjust the direction and how much the page peels. Plus, you can work with content that has an Alpha Channel. So you can have torn up pages if you wanted. Considering how long the Page Peel has been around I can’t believe that it doesn’t come standard in Motion yet.
You could achieve this in FCP but it will be a lot of work. Do you have After Effects?
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