Cloning Effects in FCE: How to do a zig zag crop & blur the boundary ?

Hi there,
I am trying to learn to do clones of boy in FCE. I managed to do it in Sony Vegas Pro & looking forward to learn to do it in FCE.
I am trying to to make 8 clones of my boy to fit in the video. I use 8 tracks of video (one for each clones), just like I did in Sony Vegas Pro.
The problem I am facing is the cropping tools in FCE is just a straight horizontal or straight vertical line to reveal the video underneath the track.
But because of the 8 clones & it is cramped, in some places, I need to crop a diagonal or curve lines. In Sony Vegas I did the curve line by clicking many straight but shorter lines. But how to do that in FCE ?
Another problem I am facing is the at the boundary of the overlapping videos, I can see an obvious straight line. In Sony Vegas, there is a function to blur the lines at the boundary. How do I do that in FCE ?
Thanks

Tom Wolsky wrote:
You can try the 8-point garbage matte, but there are no matte drawing tools in FCE.
Thanks Tom,
1. Is it true that matte drawing tools are only available in FCP ?
2. how do I find the 8-point garbage matte ? Any video tutorial to see ?
Thanks

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