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  Problem with animating masks with tracked footage

  Posted by Adam Avilla on November 18, 2014 at 10:28 pm

  Hello,

  I’ve lurked here for years. First time posting.

  I am having a problem animating a mask on some tracked footage.

  I tracked a head (clip A) onto a body (clip B) The track is phenomenal (Not really but let’s say that it is) but the “neck mask” goes off a little bit.

  

  “No problem” says I, “I’ll just animate the mask in a simple roto job. So I go to move the mask… and this happens.

  
  

  I pull out the points and nothing happens. I have seperated the masks into two clips so CLIP A (the head) is now “HEAD” and “NECK” one mask each. The mask doesn’t mask where the mask is (thus not being a mask?) and will animate/pop randomly…

  Sort of at a loss to troubleshoot when my ae reality starts breaking.

  Can ya’ll help me? Thanks!!

  Adam Avilla replied 11 years, 6 months ago 51,629 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Avilla

  November 19, 2014 at 12:42 am

  Yes the masks are both on the head clip. A mask for the head and a mask for the neck. I am trying to animate the neck.

  There seems to be a problem with the clip being parented to the null which has all the tracking data… Would that effect the position of the mask?

  /baffled.

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