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Double clicking for layer sized mask not working…
All of a sudden I’ve realised that double clicking a mask tool for a type layer isn’t giving me a ‘layer sized’ mask. I get a comp sized mask. It’s the same in CS6 or CC.
Works fine for a small solid etc.
have I missed something, or… what?
Mike
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Leading question: What do you think a “layer-sized” mask would be for a text layer?
Text layers don’t have a set size in the same way that, say, a solid does. Same goes for a shape layer. They can be though of as having a size defined by their bounding boxes, but that can obviously change from one frame to the next.
So, the thing that you’re trying to do works as you would expect for layers based on footage, but not for continuously rasterized layers that have no source and no pre-defined size.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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…it’s been a long day. The penny has dropped.
I was sure i’d done this before – but it must have been a non-live text image. -
Todd,
Thanks for the response.I understand where you’re coming from…
But couldn’t AE create a type layer sized mask – at the bounding box size of the type at the current frame when the mask is created?
Mike
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My intent was not to say what After Effects should or shouldn’t do but to explain why it currently does what it does.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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