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  • Scaling a mask as rotating and adding keyframes

    Posted by Murat Ozturk on December 25, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    Hi,

    Is it possible scaling a mask while rotating it? If so, how can I add some keyframes as well. I want to add some key points as I am doing this operation in my composition so that I will be able to have some mask transitions done. Any help would kindly be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance.

    Murat Ozturk replied 12 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • George Goodman

    December 26, 2013 at 5:02 pm

    I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to do, but it sounds like you may be looking for the mask path and/or mask expansion properties.

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    Sincerely,

    George

  • Erik Waluska

    December 27, 2013 at 1:51 am

    If I understand your question, you want to expand the mask properties and add a keyframe for the mask path. Move forward in time to where you want the second keyframe, then with the mask selected hit Ctrl/Cmd + T to enter transform mode and then you can grab the transform handles and scale and rotate the mask. Hold Shift to scale uniformly, Ctrl/Cmd to scale from the center. You can also transform 2 or more vertices instead of the whole mask, just select the points and hit Ctrl/Cmd + T.

    You could also animate the mask expansion property as George mentioned above.

    Erik Waluska
    EAWmedia

  • Murat Ozturk

    December 27, 2013 at 8:32 pm

    Thank you so much Erik; you and George showed me the way, then done it so. Really appreciated.

    Regards,

    Murat

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