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386Final Cut Pro User Guide
Show the audio effects applied to a clip
1. In the Final Cut Pro timeline, select the clip with the audio effects you want to show.
2. Choose Clip > Show Audio Animation (or press Control-A).
Each audio effect applied to the clip appears as an animation in the Audio Animation
editor. You can click the effect’s checkbox to turn the effect off and on.
Use masks to define the shape of a video effect
Intro to effect masking in Final Cut Pro
Using the masking tools built into most clip effects in Final Cut Pro, you can isolate
and control which areas of the video image are affected by clip effects, including color
corrections. These isolated areas are called masks.
There are two types of masks:
• Shape masks: The area of a shape mask is defined by its outline, and can be a regular
shape (such as a circle or rectangle) or an irregular shape that you draw. See Add a
shape mask to a video effect in Final Cut Pro.
• Color masks: The area of a color mask is defined by a specific color range, so only areas
in your clip that contain colors within the color range are part of the mask. See Add a
color mask to a video effect in Final Cut Pro.
You can apply a color mask and any number of shape masks to a clip effect, and you can
have multiple masks interact in different ways within an effect.
You can animate any effect mask in Final Cut Pro, just as you can animate most effect
parameters.
For information about using traditional masking tools to create areas of transparency in an
image, see Intro to masking in Final Cut Pro.