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Mask properties drop down menu
Hi, I’m learning to creat a mask in AE. I have drawn my mask around my subject in many different key frames between my in & out points. I now want to lose the area outside of my subject but I can’t locate the mask properties drop down menu. I’ve seen a couple of tutorials & know what the drop down should look like, with ‘add’ ‘subtract”intersect’ etc. but no matter what I click on, there is no dropdown menu for this. One tutorial says click on the mask arrow & that shows Mask 1 on the next line, click it’s arrow & Mask Shape, Mask Feather, Mask Opacity etc. show, but not the menu. Is there a plug in I have not loaded? I’m using Version 6. Any help appreciated, thanks.
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it normally shoud be there, im using also 6.0
and no you really dont need a plug in for this.
try to hit, withthe layer selected, M M
that should bring up the mask properties including the dropdown menu. The menu is after the mask nameThis is how it should look:
Layername
– Mask1…………..Add……….<---Thereshould be Mask shape.......Shape...................The dropdown Mask feather.....0,0 0,0pixels...........Menu Mask Opacity.....100% Mask Expansion...0,0 pixels If the menu isnt there, i dont know how. Try to reinstall -
Thanks for the help. I reinstalled, but it behaves the same. MM just opens & closes the Mask folders. I suspect AE isn’t operating as it should on my machine. I’ve had some error messages & had to shut it down a couple of times, once simply because I moved the scrubber. I’ll try installing on another machine, even my laptop maybe, & see whether things are the same. Thanks again.
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Yeh, that’s it. Installed on an old P4 & the drop down menu & invert box show up as they should. Drove me crazy on my AMD. Maybe I have an Open GL problem. Any tips?
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