• Adobe After Effects

  scale mask on all keyframes

  Posted by Urten Ekran on March 5, 2018 at 2:38 am

  Hey!

  I’ve a circular mask on a text layer.
  I use the mask to align the letters on a path.
  The mask path is animated and now I need to scale up the mask.
  I don’t think you can scale a mask for all keyframes at once.

  I’ve tried many workarounds but nothing seems to work, actually I don’t think this is possible in After Effects and I’ll have to rescale every (key)frame manually but maybe someone has an idea how to go about this?

  Any suggestion is much appreciated!

  Thanks

  Urten Ekran replied 8 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Cassius Marques

  March 5, 2018 at 4:51 pm

  Scale the layer by the percentage you want, then use a script that copy/pastes masks while respecting scale. Such as CopyMask2Layer.

  Cassius Marques
  http://www.zapfilmes.com
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  Urten Ekran

  March 5, 2018 at 7:15 pm

  Thank you Dave, the problem is that this scaling only affects the mask at one keyframe and I need to scale the mask across all keyframes.
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  Urten Ekran

  March 5, 2018 at 7:20 pm

  Thanks, I’ll try that!
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  Urten Ekran

  March 5, 2018 at 11:31 pm

  Ok I’ve tried it but I need to scale the mask like MASK EXPANSION would. Scaling a layer also affects the distance the mask travels.
  I should have clarified this, by bad.

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