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thanks for replying – right now im only looking to affect the background – the animation in this case is frame by frame hand drawn birds… the challenge is that I’m looking to affect ‘texture’ file that is raster tiff file – with this drawn animation bird which has alpha….

the proximity expression and the toolkit seems to work with vector files and shape layers – but I could find a work around with those probably… will keep you all posted 👍

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@Andy thanks! this looks promising as well!

will try them and revert with what worked best for my project

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Thanks @graham will try this and see if it can affect position as well

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did anyone fine a reason for this?

I have some 8-10 shot roto-ed frame by frame and have worked with masks and layers building a scene
not all of the roto-ed shots are invisible
even though files are stilled linked to the actual source files.

for me It started with the file not opening – and being stuck at 78 % or even 99% for a long time — and just not opening.
i found a way to open the file and all the videos are invisible post that.

It has happened twice —
the work around i did is below — but after working for a week — i am again faced with the same issue

to open the file :
I took the project file to another system – without its linked files – and saved in another name
brought it back and opened and relinked all the files back on mine….

To make the videos visible again:
I went to the source files in finder – and made duplicates of them – and relinked these new files — one by one
(no renaming the files did not change the files from being invisible – they needed actually different files, not just file names)

as you can imagine – I have 4 – 5 sequences like this…. for a 2min film
and doing this process many times is very tedious — not to mention the panic that hits my heart everytime the file refuses to open

SO
if anyone might have an answer to where this error is stemming from
I would be happy to save your file that is not opening and send it back to you if you so need.

TIA
OONA

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hi – did you find a solution? I find myself in the same situation.