-
Combining 2 Open Masks to make 1 closed one
I know this must be simple, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do this.
I have one half of a mask outline of a police badge. It is an open mask in the middle, I duplicated that mask and flipped it. Now I want to combine the 2 masks so that I have 1 full badge. Thing is I can’t seem to combine the end points between the 2 masks to close it all off and make 1 closed mask.
There has to be a way to do this, yes? Thanks!
–Jonathan
-
2 Replies
-
That’s probably easy to do with a script, you can ask in aenhancers.com to try it.
Still, you probably don’t need to put them together for what you want. Close both masks (right clic on a vertex) and then set them both to add mode (will be by default). That will hopefully be enough in your case.
Another workaround comes to my mind, yet it’s not exactly what you would like to do: With both masks closed, menu/layer/autotrace
Uncheck apply to new layer and put the tolerance value as small as possible.Hope that works.
-
This is such an easy thing to do in say Illustrator or even Photoshop, why is this not the case in After Effects? Or am I missing something?
Thanks for the tips though, the auto-trace will do just the trick as a work around, thanks!
–Jonathan
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up