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  • Mask Rotation problem

    Posted by Diego Martinez on September 29, 2015 at 9:50 pm

    Hi folks,
    This is driving me nuts, I have AE CC 2015 and I can’t rotate masks! I mean: I draw a mask then enter into free transform mode, I can resize it but when I try to rotate (cursor changes into circular arrows, etc) it immediately snaps to the cursor and resizes the mask instead.
    There must be something I overlooked here, any ideas?

    Jeff Bobbington replied 10 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    September 30, 2015 at 1:13 pm

    In your comp window, when double click one of the mask vertex points. A box should appear around the entire masked object, move the selection tool over one of the corners and you will get a rotate tool.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    ThinkCK

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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  • Diego Martinez

    September 30, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    thanks for your answer
    I know that, that is how it is supposed to work (at least in previous versions). The box appears around the mask, rotation tool appears, but for some reason it snaps to the cursor and changes the size of the mask. It doesn’t allow me to rotate the mask.

  • Bibin Thomas

    January 18, 2016 at 6:10 am

    the frischluft feedup plugin is causing this issue. delete it! it might be in the common plugins folder

    courtesy
    Adobe Community

  • Jeff Bobbington

    January 18, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    I get this issue too and I’ve read others having it, I don’t have the plug-in mentioned above.
    Seems to be a CC glitch which comes and goes. Try restarting or drawing your mask in a different project.

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