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stencil modes…masks with type… something like that…help!
I know this can be done, and I can’t for the life of me remember how it’s done.
I’m sure it’s very simple too.I have type, and I have a moving background.
How can I knock the background into the shape of the type so that it masks my moving background through the letters?
It’s driving me crazy! Please help!
🙂
~Holly
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2 Replies
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Check the help on “track matte”.
Steve
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Holly,
Place your moving background layer UNDERNEATH your text layer (if there is more than one layer making up your background animation, you will need to precomp it, or get all those background layers in a new composition and nest it). Next to your layer’s blend modes pop-down menus are the track matte menus. (Press F4 to toggle your timeline’s view in order to see these if you can’t already.) Change the background layer’s track matte from “none” to “Alpha Matte [text layer]”. The text layer’s visibility will turn off, and the background will borrow the transparency information of the text. Voila.
That’s kind of a muddled description. But I think if you try it, it will make sense.
ben
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