masking in after effects

Syras · Post by **Syras** » Sat May 29, 2004 2:41 am

i have AE 5.5 production bundle

AA · Post by AA » Sat May 29, 2004 2:50 am

yeah, me too. I am really confused as to why you can't animate the mask shape.
I do that stuff alot. What do you mean you can stretch the masks but you can't animate the points?
When you stretch the mask, are you pulling on the line between 2 points? I swear you can move the points around and key frame them, so as you move in the time line the mask will actually change shape. You can even add more points to the mask as you go along if you need them.

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Sat May 29, 2004 5:55 pm

after you make the shape of the mask click m to make it a mask then click the stopwath little button thing next to the title of the mask and then you should be able to go anywhere you want in the video and change the mask

Syras · Post by **Syras** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:14 am

got it working - there was a bug in my install. when i reformatted & reinstalled AE it fixed itself :raisedeyebrow:

John Groshko · Post by **John Groshko** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:04 am

It's called Keyframing.

Syras · Post by **Syras** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:52 am

i do heaps of AE stuff just like i said, there was a bug in the install, works fine now

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:18 am

got it working - there was a bug in my install. when i reformatted & reinstalled AE it fixed itself

you reformatted just so you could fix a bug??

NaziSentry · Post by **NaziSentry** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:22 pm

Congratulations.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:59 am

justsomeguy wrote:
got it working - there was a bug in my install. when i reformatted & reinstalled AE it fixed itself
you reformatted just so you could fix a bug??

You should reformat every once in a while anyway, it was probably good for his computer.