mask keyframing??

[Todd Kopriva]

The property is called Mask Path. You can show it by pressing the M key.

You can turn on keyframing (and add a keyframe at the current time) for the Mask Path property for the selected mask by pressing Alt+Shift+M.

All of the shortcuts of this sort are listed in the “Shortcuts: showing properties and groups in the Timeline panel” section of After Effects Help.

General information about animating mask paths (and shape paths) is in the “Editing and animating shape paths and masks” section.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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[Janson Williams]

nevermind all, i found out, it is definitely the mask path stopwatch, i can swear i messed with it before and it wasnt recording my keyframes,

lesson learned-keep fooling around with buttons and try things over again.

Janson Williams

[Todd Kopriva]

lesson learned-keep fooling around with buttons and try things over again.

That is not the lesson that I’d hope that people would learn. My biased opinion is that everyone is happier when folks read the documentation and make use of the tutorials (like those here on the COW) before poking buttons. It’s random poking of buttons that makes this issue, for example, come up so very often.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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[Janson Williams]

ha, very true, ill just keep reading.

Janson Williams

[Todd Kopriva]

🙂

And keep asking back when you run into problems, of course. That’s why we’re all here.

BTW, I strongly recommend Pete O’Connell’s rotoscoping DVD. It’s largely about animating masks. I learned a lot from it.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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[Janson Williams]

my error was that i still had the pen tool selected, i needed the selection tool

Janson Williams

[Janson Williams]

i finished my lil project, im sure there has to be an easier way. ill have to learn the tracking method.

https://vimeo.com/3926636

Janson Williams

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[Curtis Joel]

Thank you!