• Adobe After Effects

  Is it posible to link a mask to a motion path?

  Posted by Summy Bloem on April 20, 2006 at 1:45 pm

  Hello there

  Is it posible to link a mask to a motion path?

  this is the situation:
  I have of a close up of a guy in bed. But there is an animation on top of it of little ‘worms’ comming out of his mouth. (not really worms before people only reply on that word 😉 but it’s tuberculosis, what looks like little worms)
  There between 1 and 2cm long. and they move a little bit. the guy moves also.
  And i want the ‘worms’ gone.

  There almost gone (i’ve done it with masks, if anybody has a better idea please let me know) but you can clearly see that the mask isn’t moving along with the footage.

  Hope someone can help me

  Greetings

  Tim Kurkoski replied 20 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alon_a

  April 21, 2006 at 12:45 am

  Not sure I understand the situtation. You mean you want to have a whole mask get translated along a motion path? Perhaps you can just put the mask/s on a separate layer and animate that layer’s position property to follow the motion path?

  to make the layer follow the footage, of course you’ll need to track the footage – either draw the motion path manually or use AE’s tracking feature.

  Hope this helps, sorry if this is no what you meant.

  – A. A.
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  Tim Kurkoski

  April 21, 2006 at 5:52 pm

  You can use a mask shape as a motion path. Select the Mask Shape property, Edit > Copy, then select the Position property and Edit > Paste. Works in reverse, as well.

  You can’t directly link the path and the mask, though. If you make changes to one, copy and paste to the other.

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