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

[Gustavo Saliola]

I’m sure it’s a good solution, but it’s time for Adobe to address this and be in the real game like Mocha.

Every post in their request forums is a chance to be heard. Please write them!

Thanks.

[Darren O’donoghue]

Hi everyone, only just found this post after having the same issue, however managed to find a very useful tool made by David Torno via Lesterbanks website, which may save hours of painstaking searching and/or animating.

https://www.provideocoalition.com/mask-adjuster-free-after-effects-script/

Its an ingenious solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

Hope it helps.
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[Roei Tzoref]

Thank you Darren. it’s pretty good and a workaround for some cases. of course it’s not a real uber key that will enable you to offset parameters other than position… for example scale/rotation but the real mind blower is the vertices themselves like Mocha’s Uberkey can do. if I discover for example after my roto is done that there is one offending vertex at a corner, if I press the uberkey I could shift it in place and the change will apply to all the keyframes.

Roei Tzoref
2D/VFX Generalist & Instructor Ae Blues Tutorials
http://www.tzoref.com

[Sam Rae]

2019….Still a problem haha.

On my animation, I have multiple animated masks on the same layer (I wanted it this way).)…I want to adjust one of the masks in particular. But of course…Ditto…

[Roei Tzoref]

there’s also this:
https://aescripts.com/keytweak/

Roei Tzoref
2D/VFX Generalist & Instructor
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[Sam Rae]

Whoa KeyTweak looks awesome— that should do just what I wanted I also needed to adjust just a few vertices on some masks, yet the change was needed in the middle of the animation with lots of vertices. Thanks for the reply!

[Gustavo Saliola]

Hey Roei! It’s nice to “meet again” here, for the same mask issue with Adobe After Effects, a few years later! I’m working in a project which needed this! So, thanks The Cow!

Hope (all of) you’re safe in this times.

[Danial Monson-bergum]

[J.d. Frey]

I can’t believe you still can’t do this in AE. I’m 99% sure I used to be able to modify all the keyframes for a shape path/mask path. I’m pretty sure you used to be able to alt-select or property select all the keyframes, cmd/ctrl +T to transform the path and it would update the shape relative to the current keyframe centered on the anchor point. This is ridiculous.