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Text mask on video
Hi there
i tried to do this, but didn’t get it:
I would like to create a text mask on a video clip, so that only the text is shown “filled” with the video.
I’ve created an image in photoshop to show what I mean:
The original video (or image in my photoshop example) would have looked like this:
I hope you can help me.
thanks a lot and greetings from Switzerland
Aaron -
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Use your text layer as a track matte. See “Track mattes and traveling mattes”.
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You want to use a text layer as a track matte for your video layer.
Put your video layer in the timeline. Create a text layer immediately on top of it. Now, select your video layer, and then click Layer > Track Matte > Alpha Matte. (Alternately, you can set the track matte on the Modes panel in the timeline; press F4 to toggle between switches and modes if you don’t see it.)
EDIT: It seems that Todd types faster than I do — sorry for the duplicate information!
Walter Soyka
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Wohoo awesome! Thank you so much guys.
I really tried three or four ways to do this – but couldn’t get it working.
nice greetings from Switzerland in the heart of Europe.
Aaron
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