Q: FCPX/Motion - creating a circle with alpha channel?
This film has a lot of scientific apparatus. I need to be able to circle certain elements as they are described/discussed. I crudely made myself a red circle on black background in Pages, exported out as a PDF, then tried to find a composite mode in FCPX that would get rid of the black. The closest I got was a sort of semi-transparent red circle.
I'm wondering what the easiest way to create a red circle (red opaque, background transparent) might be, that I can drop onto an FCPX timeline and manipulate?
If I have to use Motion, I want to be able to just create the circle there. I don't want to work on the sequences in Motion (too much as yet unpredictable about the sequences). I want to do everything in FCPX if I can (other than maybe constructing the circle).
All ears,
Ben
MacBook Pro (15-inch Glossy), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Oct 30, 2014 11:57 AM
Posted on Oct 30, 2014 2:23 PM
