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After Effects mask not revealing the layer below?
I’m working my way through a project and leave it for the night. When I come back the mask I was using as a cut is no longer working. The layer below should be being revealed but it just isn’t anymore? Have I hit something by mistake? See image:
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I don’t see any track mattes, but have you perhaps applied an effect to that layer that is ignoring the masks?
Walter Soyka
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As far as I can tell, the selected mask covers the entire layer and is set to add, which means that this mask is not set to reveal or cut anything out.
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The white space behind the car should be revealing the layer below, you can see the time indicator showing its over the 2 layers. No mattes or anything applied. It was fine yesterday and opened it up today and it’s lik this. Strange!
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I see the mask on your layer, but I don’t see outline of the mask in your composition window. Are you sure it’s path didn’t get changed to something larger than your footage?
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Yeh I just hadn’t the mask selected when I took the screenshot. You can see the shape of the mask in the white space to the right of the frame.
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Ah I see. What happens if you solo the bottom layer?
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