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I need to throw a tag at the end of a video and am fairly new to FCP. In other words, I need to put a logo in at the end and it needs to take up the entire frame. How can I do this? I'm using Final Cut Pro 4. Thanks!!!

What David said, plus I don't think you can use .ai (Adobe Illustrator) in Final Cut Pro, you will have to convert it to one of the supported formats as listed in the manual:
"Graphics and Still Image Formats
BMP: Standard bit-mapped graphics format used on Windows computers.
FlashPix: A format for storing digital images, especially digital photographs, developed by Eastman Kodak Company.
GIF: Graphic Interchange Format. A common bit-mapped graphics file format used on the web.
JPEG/JFIF: Joint Photographics Experts Group. A “lossy” compression file format used for images. JFIF is JPEG File Interchange Format.
MacPaint (PNTG): A monochrome file format used on early versions of the Macintosh operating system.
Photo JPEG: An extremely popular file format because it can create highly compressed yet good-looking graphics files. You can choose grayscale or color as well as the amount of compression.
Photoshop (PSD): You can import files created or saved in the Photoshop format, along with multilayered Photoshop files. (For more information, see Volume III, Chapter 18, “Compositing and Layering.”
PICS: A file format used on Macintosh for animation sequences. The format is no longer used, in favor of QuickTime.
PICT: A common image format used on Mac OS computers. PICT files can use any of the standard QuickTime codecs for compression in color or grayscale.
PNG: Portable Network Graphics. A file format for bitmapped graphic images designed as the successor to GIF.
QuickTime Image File (QTIF): A QuickTime container file that contains an image using a supported QuickTime codec.
SGI: Silicon Graphics Image file format.
TARGA (TGA): The Targa file format. An uncompressed file format that stores images with millions of colors. Targa files are supported by nearly every platform and media application.
TIFF: Common on Mac OS and Windows computers. TIFF files allow color depths from dithered black and white to millions of colors and one form of compression."
+Source: Final Cut Pro User Manual+

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