• Adobe After Effects

  Copy and Pasting Mask onto another Layer

  Posted by Wolfmandom on November 6, 2007 at 12:42 am

  Anyone know how to Copy and Pasting Mask onto another Layer?

  thanks

  Dominic Daniels

  Todd Kopriva replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mike Clasby

  November 6, 2007 at 6:22 am

  Select the layer with the mask, M reveals the mask. Select the mask, Copy, Select the new layer. Paste.

  If The masks are the same size, the mask will be the same. If the layers are different sizes things get a little wonky.

  You can move and resize/rotate a mask (after pasting I mean) if you double click any mask vertex, then you get a little transform box like in PhotoShop to drag it around, resize, rotate (then hit Enter).
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  Todd Kopriva

  November 6, 2007 at 6:30 am

  from the “Copy, cut, paste, or duplicate a mask” section of After Effects Help:

  “* To copy or cut selected masks to the clipboard, choose Edit > Copy or Edit > Cut.
  * To paste a mask onto a layer, select the layer and then choose Edit > Paste. If a mask is selected, this replaces the selected mask.”

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