[Steve Layton]

The animation speed technique won’t work. (a sudden change in animation speed won’t let it pause without “bump”). The delay effector is something that I can work with though. Thank you for this suggestion, it saves me a big hassle. Take Care!

[Steve Layton]

I’m sorry that I seem to have not been able to express myself correctly… but I would like the layer, which the mask reveals to be linked in such a way that mask does not simply reveal the layer- but the layer is warped based on the ways in which the mask path is animated.

So if the mask is a square- and it’s two top corners reveal the letter “Z” in each of its corners and it’s two bottom corners reveal the letter “A”… as the mask moves up- the top corners will eventually contain the letter “A” and the bottom corners will be empty. I don’t want this- I want the layer to move with the mask.

I have begun to think that this is simply not possible- with masks- and that I must convert the mask into an alpha matte- and somehow manually puppet the layer which it reveals- so that it appears to be linked to the alpha matte.

Any suggestions would be helpful- as I am willing to go any route on this one.