Yes, I've wanted to discipline my masks in the past, especially when I had one mask that I wanted to use on multiple layers. Copy, paste. Copy, paste. Copy, paste. And then the art director tells me that they want to change the shape.
Gah!
And then AE CS3 came along. Plenty of great new features, but dig a little deeper and you'll see mention of a new capability a LONG time coming... the ability to pickwhip masks.
Whoo hoo! No more copying and pasting! Now when I need to use masks, I can create just ONE, and link it to any number of layers across any number of comps via expressions, specifically the pickwhip.
Click HERE for a very short overview of what it is and how it works (QT, h.264, 3:38, 3.8 mb).
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Whipping Masks
Posted by Alan Shisko at 9/19/2007 03:14:00 PM
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