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  • Reveal words using mask

    Posted by Dotan Baytman on June 25, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    I have a few sentences im revealing using a mask and i wanna use a little round circle to reveal them what is the best way to do it?
    i tried to move the circle few frames every time but that doesnt look good and its too much work i have few sentences
    is there a way to connect the circle to the enc of the mask using exprsssions or any other way?
    thanx

    Dotan Baytman replied 18 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Malcolm Desoto

    June 25, 2007 at 2:48 pm

    I’m a bit unclear as to what your problem is. Post an example maybe?

  • Dotan Baytman

    June 25, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    I have a line with words
    i want to reveal the words one at a time
    si i used a rectangular mask on a solid and animate the mask shape to reveal the words
    now i want at the end of each line to have a circle layer but that can be anything else that looks like its revealing the layer
    so my question is how can i make that circle move exactly at the end of the mask?
    clear?

  • Frank Hardie

    June 26, 2007 at 12:03 am

    At frame 1 (assuming the mask animation starts at frame 1), position the circle over the end of the mask shape. Parent the circle to the masked solid, and it should move with the mask.

  • Dotan Baytman

    June 26, 2007 at 9:09 am

    Like i said i didnt move the solid layer so i dont have position keyframes i moved the maskitself so i have mask shape keyframes so is there a way to attace the circle to these keyframes?

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