animated mask question

[Ollie Kenchington]

I am learning AE at the moment and came on to this forum to seek the answer to this exact same question. I am amazed at the long winded work around that is needed to achieve this simple animation!

This is something you can do very easily in Apple’s Motion application. Masks have Transform (inc Rotate) parameters that can by keyframed and interpolated just the same as any other object. It’s a two second job!

I have to say, the more I learn AE, the more I realise how much I prefered Motion!

[Sam Leabo]

Double click directly on the the line (path) of the mask (not the nodes) but if you double click the line, a grey box should appear around the mask and if you move the cursor outside of this, you should be able to click and drag to rotate and animate this with keyframes.

[Jared Nesi]

“If you just need the shape of the mask to rotate, you may need to put the mask on a black solid, and set the “track matte” of your photo to the black solid layer…”

You just blew my mind with this. It’s always the most simple workflows that never come to me. Ugh it just makes so much sense lol, thanks for that awesome answer you posted a decade ago hahaha.

I’m going to be a mask rotating machine now!!