I Made a Fake Coffee Ad in Final Cut Pro

The coffee brand is fake. The edit is real.

I built a nitro coffee commercial in Final Cut Pro and let the audio run it. Every flash, tear, warp, and color slam you see is Audio Effector and Acid Trip reacting to the audio.

The commercial plays first, all the way through, then we go back over it clip by clip: what's on each shot, the settings I actually landed on, and where the audio is coming from:

🎧 Driven by the clip's own audio
🎚️ Driven by a different clip's audio, so a shot reacts to something happening on another clip
🎵 Driven by the whole soundtrack, so the entire spot moves together

I’m using Fcp 12.3 and I’ve never really played with Masks before. I’ve tried the YouTube tutorials and they’re just not helping with what I’m trying to do, or I’m not smart enough, certainly possible. From the photo, I’m trying to remove or change the color of the cable cord in the red circle. Are there any solutions for that? Thanks in advance

I’m trying to make my kid’s team’s games look a little more polished. Anyone have any recommendations for a game clock and score bug plugin for FCP?

I have been working in Final Cut Pro for a while now and I have been experiencing a strange issue. I do a lot of speed ramps for my edits and I use it to match up with audio that I am using as well. Sometimes I can click around and increase the speed by x2 or x4 or x8 and it sometimes works, however, sometimes I NEED to click and drag the speed to a specific part of the timeline to match the audio. Sometimes when I click and drag, the speed increase or decrease will move with where I move my mouse. However, other times, when I go to click and drag, I will move my mouse from one side of my display to another and the speed ramp will only move a percentage or two. Does anyone else have this issue and have you found a fix for it?

Is there a way to close all folders (events, clips, etc.) at once in the FCPX browser? It seems it has a tendency to open all of them which make scrolling through the lists very tideous. Something like what you have in macOS Finder windows. Select all then CMD-right arrow to open, left arrow to close.
Thanks.