Move Object Without Moving Mask?

[Richard Garabedain]

painful situations i know…the only way would be to animate the anchor point but thats only if it has no animation keyframes of anykind currently…which is unlikely

[C. blake Davis]

Thanks for the recommendations! Typically I would. I forgot to mention above the reason I’m doing it this way is I’m trying to streamline the template so that I can easily replace this one layer as I’ll be making about 40 scenes from this one template. So easily replacing this file with other images is important

Producer working in NorCal and Nashville

[Richard Herd]

The after effects render order is the following:

SOURCE
MASK
EFFECTS
TRANSFORMATIONS

(smet)

Imagine the problems if masks were not on the source. Yikes! Or effects ignored masks!!

[Michael Szalapski]

Any chance you could use the Set Matte effect?

(I live just north of Nashville. Nice to see a fellow Tennessean!)

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[C. blake Davis]

Unfortunately it doesn’t work because the parent layer is a comp, and AE still hasn’t corrected their set matte with comp issue.

p.s. I’ve sent you an invite on LinkedIn. I’d love to connect if you’re in the area! I’m about to move into a new place in the Germantown area.

[Darby Edelen]

However, if you continuously rasterize a layer then the TRANSFORMATIONS stage occurs before the EFFECTS.

This can be useful for effects such as Set Matte where you don’t want the matte to travel with the layer’s transforms. Of course most footage items don’t expose the continuously rasterize switch so this often requires precomposing the footage.

Darby Edelen