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  Mask Question

  Posted by Chris Ellingworth on July 13, 2020 at 2:57 am

  Hi, I pre-composed this face with a basic mouth movement. Then I ran a Track Motion operation to make it move with the head from the movie. The hair from the pre-compositioned face goes above the main area of interest at times. I tried to use a shape layer with set matte technique but this just moved with the pre-composed face.
  I had to key frame a mask on the pre-composed head to keep the hair out of the black area.

  What is the simple way to do this please?

  

  Chris Ellingworth replied 5 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Martin Brennand

  July 13, 2020 at 3:54 am

  You need to mask it over the top on a new layer.
  You can either do that by creating the mask on a new and set it to track matte the face layer, or by copying the original layer and masking that layer on top of the comped one.

  Martin Brennand | Product Manager | Mocha – Boris FX (Imagineer Systems)
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  Chris Ellingworth

  July 13, 2020 at 4:23 am

  Thanks very much for your help.

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