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369Final Cut Pro User Guide
You can animate the effect and have it appear over a background. See Work with built-in
effects in Final Cut Pro.
Crop clips in Final Cut Pro
The Crop effect makes it easy to remove unwanted areas of the image. The cropped image
automatically expands to fill the screen.
1. Select a clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
2. Position the playhead over the clip in the timeline so that the clip’s video is displayed in
the viewer.
3. To access the Crop controls, do one of the following:
• Click the pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the viewer and choose Crop (or
press Shift-C).
• Control-click in the viewer and choose Crop.
4. Click the Crop button at the bottom of the viewer.
5. Adjust the effect using the onscreen controls:
• Blue handles at each corner: Drag a corner handle to adjust the crop of that corner.
The cropped image always maintains the original aspect ratio.
• Anywhere inside the window: Drag anywhere inside the crop window to adjust its
position.