Everything you need to know about masks in After Effects
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Everything you will ever need to know about masks and masking in after effects explained in 5 minutes
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00:00 Intro
00:30 The Pen Tool
00:40 Create a Mask
01:01 Mask Tools
01:14 Short Cuts
02:03 Mask Properties
02:42 add / subtract covert vertex
03:08 Mask Feather Tool
03:16 Compositiong Options
03:54 Roto / Rotoscoping
05:06 Mask Tracker
05:24 Face Tracking (Detailed Features)
05:36 Auto Trace
05:53 Mask Effects / Stroke Effect
05:58 Text follow Path
06:12 Set first Vertex
06:32 Create Masks form Text
06:36 Outro
In this 5 minute quick tip tutorial video, I will show you everything you will need to know about masks.
I will start with the very basics, on how masks work and what they are good for! I will go over the different tools to create them
and explain in detail all steps you need to know.
Learn all about the pen tool, the rectangel tool, the rounded rectangel tool, the ellipse tool, the polygon tool and the star tool!
Learn how to add and remove vertexes. How to convert them and how to feather a mask with its properties as well as the mask feather tool.
You will also learn some pro tips on how to create a mask with the least amount of points and I will guide you through some handy and helpfull shortcuts as well as the differnten masking options such as add subtract intersect and so on.
If you haven't heared about compositing options then this will be a gamechanger for you, as with this tipp you can mask out effects on layers.
Up next will be rotoscoping, I will show you the best workflows and some handy features, such as the mask tracker and the face tracker within after effects.
But that is not all, in an easy to understand way I will show you tips for beginners as well as tricks for pros / professionals.
Auto trace will be the next topic and here you will learn how to automatically mask out images based on their alpha channel or on their luma values and you can also mask out not only still images, but whole footage clips!
To end this I will show you some examples on how to use masks for specific effects, such as the stroke effect, or how to make a text follow a path or mask. You will also learn how to set your "fist vertex" and how to create masks from a text.
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Really useful video. Thanks. Glad to see something new and interesting on your channel.
Hey, there is always something new and interesting!! ;)
this is just a fantastic video filled with as much information as possible !!!
haha... thanks a lot! Indeed there is nothing left to say here!
This is my favorite mask tutorial. Thank you.
Same here!!
dude this was amazing, cheers. subscribing and will defo watch more vids as i get more into after effects
Thanks a lot!! Wish you all the best
My goodness... what a great dense tutorial! Thank you!
thanks a lot!!
wow that was really really amazing , found the best and really informative video on masking
Thanks you so much for your comment!! Hope you learned something!!
I loved this video please do more about masking and roto. I will def be watching this a couple times. Thank you
More masking tutorials? I thought I had already covere🤓😂d everything!
Thanks. So much good info in such a short time. 👏👏👏👏
Thanks a lot!!
One of the BEEEEST tutorials I've seen on this concept
Thank you sooo much!!
TONS of great masking tips! You are correct: it IS everything you will ever need to know about masks!
Haha... to be honest, there are a few things a thought about that I could also integrate in this video... so it is not ALL but ALLmost...
Amazing!... you are the best by far my friend...keep it up
Thank you so so much!!
Finally! I have waited for this one ☝️
I did it especially for you!!
I can't wait to try these out in AE version 9 and see how many work. Happy New Year Florian.
Version 9?? OMG
@@flo.motion Yeah, lol, the CS2 version. I love seeing how many things you teach in a your different postings work with it on the Mac G5. Even if something doesn't work, I may have learned about another way of thinking. Your tutorials are wonderful!
Another great video - Thanks!
Thanks a lot!!
This is an excellent refresher.
Yeah, indeed!!
Thank you! Great ! You can teach. You are clear and easy understand.!
Thanks a lot!!
Very very helpful tutorial bro. keep make this kind of videos
Hey!! Will try to do my best!! Any topics that you are interested in the most?
In 5 minutes I understood what I did not understand in 1 month of classes (sorry I speak spanish, I use translator XD) Thank u!!!!!!
Thanks for the nice comment!! That was the plan!!
Thanks for sharing. nicely explain masking things cheers... Keep sharing
Will do!! Tnx a lot
This is one of the best videos i've ever watched
Really?? OSM!!
Best Masking Video in TH-cam. thanks bro
THANK YOU!!
Great video!
Thanks a lot!!
Awesome. Thanks!
Thank you!!
Awesome. Thank y o u , Man!
Thanks for watching!!
Excellent thank you very much
Thanks for your comment!!
what a useful tutorial thanks🔥
thanks a lot!!
very clear thank you
Thanks.
cheers mate ...video is well done !!!
Thanks a lot!! Cheers!!
That my friend was a professional tutorial! Thanks.
Thank you so so much!!
Und wieder - Danke für Deine Mühe und die Tipps
Sehr gerne! Und Thanks a lot (so that everyone here can follow along!!) 😎🤓
thank you sooo much. amazing tutorial!!!
Thanks for always liking, commenting and subscribing!!
@@flo.motion may I ask you to show us again the last part of this video, (on the same example) but with more detailed if it is possible. I'm not sure that I get it the part with text follow path (on the hand) and mask from text. Thank you again.
Thank you!!! Just upgraded my life bro
Haha... Great to hear!!
Thank lot Flomotion!
Thanks for watching!!
@@flo.motion thank you for your good job!
Very useful tips 👍🌷
thanks a lot!!
nice video mate
Thank you! Hope it was helpful!
Great tutorial 😍😍
Thanks a lot!!
thanks! u are great
thanks a lot!!
Always great Tutorial 👍
Thanks so so much!!
@@flo.motion I want to build a pc for vfx and animation under 100k in Indian Ruppes. Can you suggest which cpu, graphics card and other components should i buy ?
Great tutorial
Thanks a lot!!
Oh man ich liebe dein tutorial style 🥰
Tausend Dank dir!!
very nice !
thank you!!
Happy New Year bro!) Hi from Russia!
Happy New Year!!
What a legend 🔥
who?
@@flo.motion YOU OF COURSE
Great 👍. I hope to see tracking tutorial
Wait for it!!
Amazing
Thank you!!
many thanks
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Thank you!!
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Very useful.
Thanks!!
mouse wheel, haha that video, made me smile xD
Jeah!! Made that especially for you!!
this vid is so so so so helpful. Just one question: can you create a singular mask out of multiple shapes? Like, say I have a checkerboard picture, and I want to put two of the checkerboard squares in the same mask but they arent connected. How would I do that?
Hey, I don't think this will work. But for which reason do you want to do that? Maybe we find a solution for that!
@@flo.motion I figured out an alternative already, but thanks for your reply!
Such an underrated tutorial
Haha... thank you!!
your the best #Flomotion
Wow, thanks a lot!!
great
thank you!!
can you add a line (border in color) to an animated mask? thanks
Yes you can! Simply apply the "stroke" effect to the layer.
What should I do if my mask point handles are missing? Although in the view setting the display checkbox is(
Hey, are just the mask points visible and not the handles or both of them? You need to select the mask, makie sure you are in comp and not layer mode and yes, enable the mask view! Does anything of that help out?
For a second, I thought you were going to teach us how to make our own custom masks in After Effects to go to 3D print, for the help in reducing the spread of Covid. Haha!
😷😷😅🤣
How to apply a mask to just a few frames of a layer, and then remove the mask? back to normal? how do I do that?
Hey, there are a few differnet ways. 1. Keyframe the path and on the frame you don't want it to be there, simple move it out of the frame. 2. Animate the transparency of the mask! 3. Simply trim the layer to the timing where you want to have the path! I think there will be more ways, but let me know if one of those already helped!
When I scroll my mouse wheel, it changes the size of my composition in the preview panel, not the number of points in the mask. How do I change that?
You need to scroll, while still holding down the other buttons that create the mask, so scroll while creating!!
if i have a car that has been roto brushed and frozen, can i make a text mask that only shows up when the rotobrushed car drives past the text?
Jeah, you can use that as a track matte with the pig whip next to the layer. Super easy!!
Please cover the camera and a 3D scene in the next episode
Great topic!! Will definitely do that in one of the next videos!!
When he got to shape layers and took a deep sigh, " That's a different topic" >.
Haha... because it really is!!
im not getting add/invert option how do i fix this?
Try to click the toggle switches button at the bottom of the timeline left
Clear and easy to understand, on a scale from 1 to 10, you're an 11
WOW!!
I'm trying what you're showing, but everytime I use a rectangle mask, it doesn't actually mask anything. I have all my settings exactly the same as yours but it's not working.
Can you please help? (BTW, I'm using After Effects 2021)
hmmm... ok, what are you trying to mask? Do you have a layer selected?
@@flo.motion It's alright, I've figured it out now. It's because I had Twixtor on and I hadn't pre-comped the clip yet.
Hey bro could you please make a video using Avathar SDK demo site.
Using this site we can create 3d face with just an photo and this is absolutely free.
Please make a 3d animation video using this
Hey! I will have a look at it! What is the final effect that you want to achieve with that?
@@flo.motion I want to make character animation and I did with my friend face
I created face model with this and created a character using blender then make animation using mixamo then exported as obj sequance then created a video. But that is not perfect
We need more tuts in general
Hey! No problem!! Just give me some topics!!
@@flo.motion Thanks. One thing that comes to my mind is 3D animation using E3D and Particular and how can you animate the camera in such a 3D space where the two effects live together and interacting with each other. I have already worked on something similar but you doing a Tut I am sure i will gain more knowledge.
I can suggest other things as well if this is not working with you.
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Tnx
👍👍
Thank you!!
The countdown gives me anxiety. haha.
Haha... me too!!
Man he got everything except for one thing: pasting same layer masks onto one another
What do you mean by that? Then I have two identical masks?
@@flo.motion no sir, say you had two different masks, on a different layer, when you copy and paste one of the masks onto the same layer as the other mask it just creates another mask on that layer called mask 2. But say you wanted the both masks on the same layer under the same mask how would you do that
@@ShrineStudios Thats what i need to know!
I just want to know how to create a mask that stays in place on a moving layer😭😭
Just create a mask. Done. Or should it stay on the same spot in the footage? Then track the footage and attach the mask to the track
@@flo.motion I imported an Illustrator file that includes smaller moving objects that dont fill out a whole layer. When I create a mask on the moving layer the mask automatically moves with the object :(
Music is distracting and way too loud!
Is it distracting because it is too loud??
@@flo.motion I mean it's only in the beginning. It is distracting because it doesnt fit in the setting of "Listen up. I'm gonna explain something to you"
what a useful tutorial thanks🔥
I do make tutorial and your creativity inspire me 😍👏
Thanks a lot for your nice words!!