Adding a watermark or logo to your video
Often in the promo video world, a client will ask to have their logo embedded in their video through the duration of the video. This is a relatively easy task, you may think, until they e-mail a JPEG image of their logo. When you plop it into your timeline, you are presented with this annoying white background that is very distracting. Even if you make the image semi-transparent, you still get this ugly rectangular halo around the logo. With this help of the Luma Keyer effect, we can easily get rid of this solid color background.
Getting ready
Simply import any JPEG image/logo into FCPX.
How to do it...
1. Connect your logo to the first clip in the timeline where you want the watermark to appear. This is often right at the beginning of the video, but not always. Don't worry about the clip's length just yet.
Here's what the clips look like in our timeline:
And here's what the result looks like in our Viewer:
As we can see, the image currently is overlayed...
