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When it comes to building effects in Final Cut Pro there are several things that need to be considered. First, there are the type of effects that are applied to individual clips or to a series of clips in the Timeline – these are single layer video effects. Then there are the types of effects that are termed multi-layered effects.

Look to the video track symbols at the front of the Timeline – the break-off tabs are labelled V1, A1, A2…. These are the video and audio tracks. Final Cut Pro allows for up to 99 video tracks or layers to be created. ...

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