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After many hours of trials I finally succeeded in stacking five images and moving the top four into each of the four corners on top of the bottom image. Now, I would like to do a similar thing but change each image into either an oval or a circle, gather the four images into a compound clip and rotate them. For example, each image could be a rose and I would end up with a circle of images that I could rotate. Is this possible and how would I turn the rectangles into circles or ovals?


I haven't really learned to use Motion yet so I would have to do this in FCPX.

Final Cut Pro X

Posted on Apr 28, 2012 11:30 AM

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Apr 28, 2012 3:04 PM in response to serenity99

The easiet way that occurs to me would be to use a mask on each clip. FCP has a 4 point mask under effects>keying>mask. For more precision you can download a free 8 point mask from Alex4D http://alex4d.wordpress.com/fcpx/. Just scroll down to mask. Then position the clip and size as desired before compounding. Another way would be to add a shape generator. Place the generator as an attached clip to your main clip and make the shape a white circle. Size and position as desired and set blend mode to silhouette alpha. Stack your clips and generators and then compound. Hope this gets you started.

May 2, 2012 6:58 PM in response to serenity99

Maybe I am missing something. I tinkered with the controls in the inspector but I stil get rectangles instead of circles 😟


I was using Effects/Shaping Mask but I see that if I use Correction/Shape Mask in the inspector window, I can black out the areas on the outer edge of the mask leaving a circle of an image in the middle.


I am trying to get six roses (circular) positioned in a circle and I want to rotate them. That's the end goal here.

May 2, 2012 7:20 PM in response to serenity99

I think I have got the idea. I stacked three images on top of each other with the top two having masks. A certain part of the top two was masked into a small circle. I joined them into a compound clip and managed to rotate them. However, what I could not do was move them. If I am doing a circle of roses I need them to be evenly spaced in a circle so how would I do that?

May 3, 2012 2:14 PM in response to serenity99

Take each clip with its mask and make a compound clip. size as desired. Don't put all tha clips into one compound clip. You should then have stacked compound clips. Select one and then use the transform tool to position in the viewer where you want it. Do the same for the others. If you then want t o rotate the whole thing make all the compound clips into one new compound clip. Hope this helps.

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