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Hi gang,
I have to do a bunch of masks on still portraits. I need each portrait to be the same frame size. I want to use masks to standardize the frame size. In FCPX I could use the 'Crop', which is okay. But as I was experiment with the 'mask' I notice that the mask is more like a 4 point mask ... but there seems to be no way you can control the vertical, or horizontal, angle. Which makes for a crooked mask. This seems odd. Is there a way to control the sides ... so they can be forced to be perfectly vertical or horizontal?
And, while I'm asking ... can FCPX do multi-point (4,8,12) masks?
Ben

'Trim' in Crop you mean? Yup, that's what I used. Works fine. But I used to do a lot of odd and useful things with masks/mattes in FCP7, and I'm trying to figure out what FCPX can do ... without me having to go to Motion.
Thank you Russ,
B

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