Saving composited clip - How?!

Used to be able to edit the posts - where is that option?

Anyway, since somebody's going to ask for a screenshot for the Saving composited clip post I just posted, here it is. The clip is highlighted in yellow and the masks are above, but how can I save the effect as a rendered composite clip? The Help menu is no help 😐

Well, thanks! That wasn't easily found in the Help menu, was it? I'll try opt-G next time, but the workaround I stumbled on was to select the clip and go to Share (command E) but that was a multistep process and I had to import it...all the same, it did work. The masking is complicated compared with my other NLE, but I guess I can warm up to it. FCP-X is darned complicated...sort of the way people used to compare the simplicity of TextEdit with MS Word. Speaking of Mac programs, if you know Pages, they have (like Photoshop) shapes you can create and color and then drag and drop over whatever you want to cover. I guess they're not masks, really. In Final Cut, you go to Generators and choose shape, but so far I found it wasn't so simple to adjust it...lots of controls, etc. 😮

Thanks Karsten, you're right, of course. And it took me years (and lots of hair-pulling) to master my former program. Trouble is, many, like myself think, oh, I need to get something done right away, and let's do it in this new FCP-X everyone's crazy about. And then...!!

But like iMovie, which I've learned to like, there's definitely a work flow and intuitiveness I'm very pleased with. It's only when you try something like mattes and masks that you run up against new techniques to learn. I thought it's a little like, if you can fly a Cessna, and then they put you in the cockpit of a 747!

Sorry, not solved! Opt-G does not save the effects - all I get is the clip without the effects. I've tried this 4 times - same thing.

Am I not making myself clear? All I need to do is to save the clip with the effects in it. Gosh!! why can't FCP do this. or why isn't it explained clearly. Opt-G? Please help, and if not, someone else, thanks.

Otherwise I have to do command E and then re-import the file, and it's a bunch of extra steps.

Thanks again, you're a great teacher. All the same, in step 4 when I do the Opt-G, I still get the text (in your example, the copyright) but of course I want the text masked out. In other words, the mask doesn't appear in the 'render'. So I'm still: 😕

Now I can't even find out how to change the text color. Where in the Help is it even mentioned? Am I supposed to stay with white text? Even iMovie easily let me change the color. OK, so I'm in the text editor, and where's the text color setting (please?)

Great, so I was going about the masks the wrong way. I will try your method. Again, today, trying to do a quick project, and as an analogy, I find myself at the controls of a much larger plane than I'm used to!

Color, yes, now I'm in heaven, and Tom shows how: (who knew about Face?)