Changing background colors Final Cut Pro.

Hello,
How do i change the background colour in a video?
Thanks

You place an image or a color generator underneath the video.

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I did move my renders from a local drive to an external because of data capacity. After doing so I did >update my Media, Render and Project paths to the new location of my media.
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