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  • How to move mask paths over several keyframes all at once?

    Posted by John Mayer on July 6, 2014 at 2:33 am

    I’m trying to pull a mask from a position, but unfortunately the other keyframes doesn’t follow and keep morphing to the original state of the next keyframe. Is there a way to make the keyframe follows my correction?

    J.d. Frey replied 4 years, 1 month ago 15 Members · 39 Replies
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  • Iris Moleman

    July 7, 2014 at 9:31 am

    Maybe you should select all keyframes before you move the mask?

  • John Mayer

    July 7, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    this was the first thing I did. The keyframe deselect once I try to move.

  • Brian Charles

    July 7, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    Free-transform mode may help you.

    First select all pertinent mask keyframes then use free-transform to modify them in unison.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-shape-paths-masks.html#move_vertices_in_free_transform_mode

  • John Mayer

    July 7, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    Still doesn’t work. The Keyframes stay selected but the end result after moving the mask is the same. Only the keyframe I was on was affected.

  • Brian Charles

    July 7, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    Could you post a screen capture of your timeline and composition. Once selected, normal behaviour is that keyframes remain selected and respond to the transform.

  • John Mayer

    July 7, 2014 at 3:53 pm
  • Brian Charles

    July 7, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    So that looks correct. Here is what should happen.

    Mask transform

  • John Mayer

    July 7, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    That’s not really what I asked for. You basically did another keyframe and a newer transformation. What I meant is to move the already created keyframed mask animated tweens in the subsequent keyframes without altering the animation. I can only do it for the keyframe I have in focus, but the other keyframes don’t follow. I have to transform manually every other keyframes.

  • Brian Charles

    July 7, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    [JonZ MarZ] “move the already created masked tweens in the subsequent already created keyframes without altering the animation”

    I’m not clear on what you mean. How can you move something without altering the animation?

  • John Mayer

    July 7, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    exactly my question

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