Adding masks

- Final Cut allows you to isolate…an effect to a certain part of the…image with the help of masks.…In this movie, we'll use a mask to isolate a…blur to only a small portion of the screen.…I'm here in my chapter 5.8 project…and I have my clip here in the timeline.…What I'm going to do is we're going to actually…just isolate a blur to a portion of this window.…So inside my effects browser.…If it's not showing for any reason,…you can simply click on this icon here…at the top, command five, and you…can press command four to see your…inspector 'cause we will be doing…some adjustments in here.…

Now with the blur category selected,…let's choose to select a gaussian blur.…And you can see it makes the entire…image really blurry.…And what I like to do is just take this…gaussian blur and isolate it to a…portion of the frame, and in particular,…again, this window.…So I want to show you to the top right,…all effects, is a little icon,…and this icon here, this circle,…actually means apply a color or a shape mask.…So a color or a shape mask in particular,…