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Mask Chainging other Masks….?
Hi, I was wondering if there was anyway to do this (Running CS3, btw):
I have a few solids and one has a mask on it, what I’d like to do is have all the other solids have the same mask on it and when I animate the one “parent” mask – for all the other masks to do the same…
The reason I want to do it like this is…
-While I want all the layers to have the same mask shape, some have layers have some effects on them that irradiates out the edges.
-While I could do all the animation with one mask and paste it on all the other layers after the fact – the truth is that I need to see what happens each frame while I’m animating because of the aforementioned ‘irradiating’ effects. I just need to make sure they don’t clash with other items in the composition
Please help if you can, I can re-explain in detail if required. Thanks!
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ok, not sure if this will work but one option would be pic wiping your masks shape property.
to do this first create a mask, (the original/non keyframed mask) and dup it to all your layers. So they are all at frame 1 (or your starting frame) with this done. option click the mask shape from one the the ‘child’ masks (no need to fully dupe any of them yet, since we are just testing here) and when that is done and you get your expressions box. Use the pic whip now visible and drag it up to the original ‘parent’ masks. this might work. don’t know for sure, but worth a try.
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