Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1022)

Chapter 12 Changing Motion Parameters 235
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9 To apply these settings to the other two clips, select the clip on track V4 in the
Timeline, then choose Edit > Copy. Select the clips on tracks V2 and V3, then choose
Edit > Paste Attributes.
10 In the Paste Attributes dialog, click the Drop Shadow checkbox, then click OK.
Finally, you want to darken the background layer, since it’s competing with the
foreground layers.
11 Open the background clip on track V1, then click its Motion tab. Click the Opacity
parameter’s disclosure triangle, then set the opacity to 50 percent.
Now you have your completed composite: three clips layered, cropped, scaled, and
rotated, with edges feathered.
Both selected clips now
display a drop shadow.
The background clip
now appears darker in
the Canvas.