Does anyone have intermittent problems with the Draw Mask tool?
Yesterday I was doing some green screen work with my grandson and needed to draw a mask round the screen.
However, when I dropped the Draw Mask effect onto the clip the cursor did not change into a pen icon even though everything was selected correctly.
I trashed the preferences and everything worked well . . . for a short while . . . and then it stopped working.
I have since discovered that trashing the preferences is not necessary as simply shutting down and relaunching FCP X is all that is needed.
Now before anyone suggests there is something wrong with my iMac etc. let me add that the last time this happened was over 3 years ago (when I first used the Draw Mask) and since then the iMac has been wiped and a new OS and version of FCP X installed.
So from my limited experience there appears to be some instability with the Draw Mask in different versions of FCP X.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
EDIT: I have just found my original problem from November 2019.
Can't get Draw Mask effect to work? - Apple Community
iMac 27″ 5K
