• Adobe After Effects

  masking a clip

  Posted by James Willis on February 4, 2009 at 9:54 pm

  I am kinda new to this program. I need to mask out a portion of a movie clip and then applied it to another clip. for instance, a movie of a door opening up and the new movie appears in the door way. Does this make sense?

  Grant Swanson replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Grant Swanson

  February 4, 2009 at 10:39 pm

  James,

  Simple, just take the pen tool and draw the shape that you need around the footage. Animate the mask path if the footage moves.

  For the doorway you could probably even use the rectangle tool, which will draw the sharp corners (you can change the degree of sharpness) and keep the correct 90 degree angles for you.

  Grant Swanson
  Visual Effects Supervisor
  Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
  videoapex.net

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