Image mask problem - positioning

Sorry if this has been asked before. I really did try searching before posting.
I was trying to get a text mask to work for me in FCE 2 but I can't seem to figure it out. I can almost get the desired effect with a video layer, a text layer on top of that, and applying "Travel Matte-Luma". I can move around the text or the video, which is what I want to do. But the video that shows through the text is grayscale. So, I tried adding an image mask to the video clip. It worked and was in color, but I am unable to move the text over the desired part of the video. Does this make sense? Any ideas?

Thanks for the help. If I use alpha it just turns everything black except for the text. I was playing around with it some more and found that if I simply chose "reverse alpha" (without applying a matte) I achieved the desired effect, EXCEPT the outline of the text was still visible. What am I doing wrong?

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Hi.
I have stumbled over a masking-problem, that I hope you can
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several graphic objects on separate layers. Please see reference
image 1.
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Reference
images

quote:
Originally posted by:
DrEv1l
(...) if you're doing it on the timeline, you'll need 1 layer
for each graphics OR you put all the graphics in 1 layer in 1
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too
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