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  • masking effects?

    Posted by Fusion05 on November 5, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    I’m not sure if I’m missing something obvious here, but I cant for the life of me figure out how to mask a numbers effect on a solid layer. I’ve got a subtract mask over some of the numbers, and it’s not doing anything. Am I missing something?

    Mike Clasby replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mike Clasby

    November 5, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    It’s a render order thing. Remove the mask, then precomp the solid with the numbers effect on it (Layer>Precompose (move all attributes)). Then mask that precomp layer.

    It’s weird but about half off the problem in AE can be solved by precomping, OK, maybe a slight exaggeration.

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