In this video I’m showing you how I remove wires (specifically fishing line) in Final Cut Pro—even though FCP doesn’t have a built-in wire removal tool like After Effects. I’m using a shot from my hockey skate “mock commercial” where the skate is literally hanging from a boom arm, and if you leave that line in the final edit it completely kills the magic. The goal is to get that floating product look without distracting rigging showing up on camera. The biggest takeaway: do your edit pacing first. I always stabilize, speed ramp, and keyframe transforms before I touch wire removal, because changing timing after the fact can mess up your masks and make you redo everything. Then I break the job into two parts: the easy section of wire on the dark background (smoke + black) and the harder section where the line crosses the product itself. The workflow is basically compound clip, duplicate, draw mask + invert, then use a blurred underlying layer (Gaussian Blur with vertical blur at 0) and small exposure tweaks to blend the patch. Finally, keyframe the mask points and transforms so it tracks through the shot. It’s a little tedious, but once you’ve done it a few times it’s a couple minutes of work for a shot that feels “impossible.”