can you move mask shapes together?

[Mike Clasby]

Try this:

Get to the frame where the keyframe is. With the Selection Toll (V) double click on any of the verticies (like nodes) of the mask. You get a little Tansform box around the Mask like in Photoshop, you can rotate, skew, lengthen-shorten. You can also move it up with the arrow key. I don’t know if they only move it one pixel at a time, but it’s not much.

[Joshua Rule]

that is not what I meant. I have like 50 shape keyframes on my time line. I want to move each one of those keyframes 5 pixels up. I want to move each keyframe 5 picels up all at once rather than having to go on each keyframe and hit 5 pixels up. You can do this with thingslike position on layers but for some reason ti doesn’t work with masks.

[Steve Roberts]

Hmm … wouldn’t moving the layer’s position up 5 pixels do the same thing as moving all masks up 5 pixels?

If you just wanted to move the masks (not the layer), maybe you could move the layer up, then use the pan behind tool to move it back down? Or precompose?

Steve

[Milesl2@mac.com]

This might be a bit more complex than needed, but you could place your current mask on a black or white solid and use this as a track matte for the footage the mask is on now (feathering and expansion will still work as needed). If you need to shift five pixels up, just simply move the layer with the mask on it up and it won’t move the footage as Steve’s suggestion would.

[Milesl2@mac.com]

Just wanted to fill in some of the details I left out. The black solid would likely need to be pre composed in a comp with the background color (or a layer placed below) set as white to give you a proper matte layer. Hope that helps.
ML