How to make text dissapear

[Kevin Camp]

in your case, i would think that creating a small white solid to be layer over the text would ‘hide’ it so you wouldn’t see it on the other side of the button.

you could probably just duplicate your white background bar, move it above the text layer (or layers) and the slide it to the left so the right edge would be hidden by the pause button.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Tijmen Van esch]

thanks for the quick respons!
But is it also possible to make the text, and the white bar dissapear. So that I only see the picture at the left side of the pause button.
I wonder if that is possible with AE.

Thnx anyway!

[Simon Bonner]

Try precomposing the text and the white bar. Then, back in the original comp, use the rectangular mask tool to draw around the part of the precomp that you want to keep (the part of the bar that is to the right of the button). This should do it.

Simon Bonner

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[Kevin Camp]

[Tijmen van Esch] “But is it also possible to make the text, and the white bar dissapear. So that I only see the picture at the left side of the pause button.”

definitely, i just missed the effect you were after…

i assume the white bar is a layer that is above the video layer… there are several ways to do this, one is to just use the mask tool to create a rectangular mask that will ‘crop’ the layer to the size you need, revealing the left-bottom corner of the video. another would be to just shift the white bar’s position to the right until the left edge of the bar would be behind the pause button.

either way, once you have it the way you want it, duplicate the bar layer and drag one above the text layer. then, from the timeline, in the modes panel for the text layer (if you don’t see a column labeled ‘modes’ go to the right side of the timeline, click the arrow in the corner and choose columns>modes) select the TrkMat dropdown menu and select ‘alpha matte’ [layer above’s name]. this will use the alpha from the white bar copy to crop the text to the same area.

does that work for your comp?

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW