• Adobe After Effects

  How to lock a feathered mask so it doesn’t move with a scrolling text layer

  Posted by Kenn Perkins on September 5, 2018 at 11:30 pm

  I highlighted a scrolling text layer and added a rectangular mask.
  Then I feathered the mask.
  I want the mask to stay fixed (locked in place…to the active camera) so the scrolling text layer moves through it.
  I’ve looked at tutorials and tried everything I can think of, but the mask always moves with the scrolling text layer.
  Hope someone can help or direct me to the appropriate tutorial.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  

  

  Walter Soyka replied 7 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Greg Gesch

  September 6, 2018 at 12:53 am

  Hi Kenn. Probably the simplest way is to pre-compose the text layer and add the mask to the main comp.
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  Walter Soyka

  September 6, 2018 at 1:45 am

  You could also try using a track matte instead of a mask:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/alpha-channels-masks-mattes.html#track_mattes_and_traveling_mattes

  Walter Soyka
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