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masks to layers
Hi Everyone
Is there a way to convert the masks on one layer into each seperate layer without the tedious cut and paste. I have a layer with 256 masks and need to animate them seperatly in 3D space.
Maybe a script or something really simply that I have missed.
Cheers
Gary
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2 Replies
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i can’t think of a way to get ae to release the masks to layers… but you can do it with illustrator.
you could select all your masks, then copy and paste them into illustrator. from the layer palette choose release to layers (sequence), then pull your released layers out of the parent layer and delete the parent. save and import as comp into ae.
the draw back is that they will no longer be masks, they will be layers…. and if you needed those masks to ‘mask’ part of the original layer, that layer won’t be there. even if your original layer was a still image, it would be just as much work (maybe more) to create a clipping mask for each mask/path for your image, release to layers and import into ae.
a script could probably be written that could duplicate that layer the number of times that it has masks, and remove all masks from those layers except the one that matches the layer number, thus separating your masks to layers. but it would take me longer to figure out the script and test it than it would to do it manually (i think you can do this manually in about 15 minutes).
you might want to post this in the expressions forum… those who know java and ae may be able to write this quickly, and it does seem like a useful script (it seems like a straight forward process, but it would take me a long time to look up the java to write it).
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
it sounded like such a usefull script that chris green already wrote one called Separate_Masks_in_Layers. just scroll down the page a bit, about 7 or 8 down.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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