Text behind an object

Treat the effect as spatial typography, not a masking trick. The text must remain readable in the scene while the foreground occlusion creates convincing depth.

Compose the settled frame

Choose a shot where the subject crosses a useful text area and has enough separation from the background. Decide the focal words, line breaks, scale, placement, color, and whether the typography belongs to the environment or deliberately contrasts with it.

Build three editable layers:

1. the original plate;
2. native Text+ or a fully editable Fusion title;
3. a foreground-only duplicate or alpha layer above the text.

Place the text so some letters remain readable outside the occluder. Avoid hiding the key word, punctuation, or the only distinctive letterform. Let the subject interrupt the text enough to establish depth, but not enough to turn the message into a puzzle.

Choose the matte

Read references/tutorial-analysis.md before choosing the isolation method. Use a tracked subject matte for people and irregular moving objects. Use original geometric Fusion masks only for simple, predictable silhouettes. The bundled ellipse and rounded-rectangle assets are editable scaffolds for those simple cases, not substitutes for a real subject matte.