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  • lock layer properties

    Posted by Anne Kochan on September 18, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Hi everybody.

    I want to lock the layer properties by expressions (e.g. position).
    I have a layer with a mask. I changed the layer position by keyframes and now I want to go on making changes to the mask.
    For this I want to lock the position of the layer (with all it keyframes) to save it.
    I found out how to lock it in general, but not how I can keep all my keyframes.

    Thanks for any suggestions.

    Georg Rang replied 11 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Filip Vandueren

    September 19, 2009 at 9:48 am

    If you add anecpression like

    [400,200]

    the layer will always be at that position, regardless of the keyframes.
    You can also edit the mask in the layer viewer instead of in the comp viewer.

  • Anne Kochan

    September 21, 2009 at 7:58 am

    thanks for the answer, but that’s what I already found out. isn’t their any expression I can use to lock the layer position (such as I can lock a whole layer)not at one certain position, but keeping all position keyframes? I don’t want the layer to stay at that one position. I want to move it with my position keyframes. I only want to lock the position keyframes to avoid to do any unintentional changes.

  • Georg Rang

    January 3, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Thank you a lot!
    That was just what I was looking for!)

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