Easily make an object appear / disappear in After Effects (Track Matte Tutorial)

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There are lots of cool ways to make objects or text appear or disappear in After Effects. One of my favorites is by using the Track Matte feature. The basic premise is that you create a shape that creates the ‘visible boundary’ by which your object can be seen or not. So wherever the shape is, your object will appear. Wherever your shape isn’t, your object doesn’t appear.
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Sweet Jesus I've been fighting with this for hours. Trying other tutorials that didn't work. Sitting through tutorials that didn't answer my question. And boom, you crush it out the gate. Thank you!

[@americo_san]

I was looking about a simple, fast and great tutorial about Track matte. And this is the one. Thanks a lot!

[@DiyMoviesSA]

Thanks, been struggling with mattes for the past 2 hours. Your tut works perfectly for my application 😊

[@wolfreicherter748]

I ve been looking for this info. Bless ya for a straight forward no nonsense informative Tutorial. Thank you !!!

[@danielwillingmyre8620]

I literally forget how to do this all the time and all the time I come to this video. Thank you!

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Thank you so much! You explained it clearly, and I was able to get it working on my end

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Your explanations were clear and consise. You are the real king!

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Thank youuuu, you had explain it in a really easy way! All the other tutorials are confunsing!

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Was looking for this for hours, thank you so much for the simple and clear tutorial :)

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[@Captain_Tumbleweed]

Thanks for the tutorial dude, I tried so long to get this to work ;)

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You explained it all so well! thank you so much!

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Thank you! This was literally what I was looking for all morning :')

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kikwoka haha glad you found me!

[@avnishparker]

Saved my MB(s). Thanks

[@VishalHazarika08]

Thank you! So easy and nicely explained

[@gdlpaz]

Simple and perfect tutorial ! Tks ; )

[@heatherskjervik1461]

Thanks great tutorial for a beginner like me. The only thing that would have been handy to have explained was how you held the frame (I worked this out in the end). Thanks!

[@kelly_browning]

Hi Phil, what do you do when you have multiple layers to "hide", and not just one image? Do you have to group the layers together and apply the Track Matter to the group?

[@junkster101]

Thank you so much for this, was never sure what this technique was called and as you said, I've seen it in countless animations

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+Jardley Jean-Louis haha - ya it doesn't really have a name that I'm aware of - but it is used so often!

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Simple and very useful! Thank's alot!

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thank you so much for this man. I'm new to Ae and I literally got stuck until I found this!

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same here man, I was about to go into full rage mode, been searching for a tutorial like this for 2 hours

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Thank you! This helped a bunch !

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Great tutorial Phil!

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Great info, thanks for this!

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This is great. Thank you!

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great video, thanks!!

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very helpful, thanks!

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MASSIVE LEGEND, was looking for this for ages!

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glad you found me. What did you search for to try to find this video? It'll help me rename it so more people can find it easily.

[@JoeHypershell]

Locking a mask whilst the object moved, animating masks, but i think it's named well. I dumbed down my search and your video came first so it worked in that way. Thanks again for this!

[@crisulina4ever]

i used "after effects how to make a mask disappear" thanks a lot for the video! although i still don't know how to make something disappear without moving it to the right or to the left haha hope i'm gonna figure it out on my own

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Thank you so much. This tutorial solved my problem.

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im doing a uni assignment right now and this literally saved me thank you so much !!

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Great vid, thanks dude!

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Thank you so much!

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Thanks a lot! super straight forward!! yeah!!

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nice tutorial, thanks!

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Great tutorial!

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flipping amazing thank you

[@Kenny-Ross]

Thanks Phil!

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That’s really cool and really neat!!!☺️😊🙂👍

[@tatianachayko6677]

Super helpful How to make it work for a situation when object moves around the video as well and changes in size at the same time as it pops up at the beginning?

[@Octo_Ink_Art]

Thank you man!

[@beezlynn]

Thank you so much, you are a life saver!

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Thanks for your quick and easy tut!

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+Tekgila you're welcome!

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thank you so much dude

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Very easy and helpful. :)

[@michellelindemann9946]

THANK YOU, I appreciate it

[@CraftSuppliesUSA]

I tried this and it worked great with one video and I am trying it another and it's not working. The previous video I used it on text that was from Illustrator that had been converted to outlines. The video it didn't work on was a text layer built in after effects. When you drop the shape over the text and use the trkmatte feature by changing the text layer to Alpha, the text disappears and it doesn't work. Do I have to build all of my titles/text layers in Illustrator in order for this to work or is there a quick fix to my problem?

[@MarkyDav]

Awesome ^_^ I wish my graph editor looked like yours tho XD

[@ChiaraMagix]

Thank you!

[@jhonadrianl]

Thanks. really easy.

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Thanks, it was useful

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Thanks man!

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thank you!

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Helpful! Thank you :-)

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you made it so eassy!! Thank you :D :D

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So glad to help!

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thanks a tonn!!

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Thx For The Tutorial, Btw What Song In The End Of This Video?

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Awesome video! very clear and helpful

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thanks for watching!

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Thank you dude

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Very useful thaank u so much!!!!

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Thanks for this bro❤

[@pathum.r9398]

Thanks a lot dude.. 👍❤

[@julfragoso3741]

thanks buddy!

[@beyondbecca5407]

Having a bit of trouble, when i change my image to alpha matte, and try to move it, it does not disappear when i go outside of my shape. the shape is listed directly above my image and all settings look to be like yours... :(

[@bima6168]

thank you

[@danielarodriguezminsky9643]

thank you!!! you turned a nightmare into a game! Simple and fast

[@HungryHeart101]

Hi, how do I turn off auto fit image, my image png file is auto fitting into the composite.

[@DeathsquadDemongods]

thank you I have been struggling with this! Masks wouldnt work, but track matte did!!

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this was so helpful thank you!

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glad to help!

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thanks man

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you saved my life dude. thanks a lot

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thanks

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OMG thank you this is so helpful

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Glad to help Anna!

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thanks a lot

[@MrAimss]

Thanks bro you saved my live

[@SharedReality]

8 years later and this video is still providing value. Just saved me so much frustration with a video template I was editing. Thank you!

[@kasiaszyffer26]

anyone knows why when I change the track matte of the layer i wanna hide, it loses it's color fill (it's vectorized), only shapes stays intact

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FINALLY what I was looking for! Thanks :)

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+Pia Nyakairu haha nice

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Same! it took me forever to find this

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Thaaaaanks❤

[@LiMoNiZeR]

How could this be done but with text and transparent background like Jon Olsson does in the intro of his vlogs?

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You're the man!

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thanks!

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Love you!!!!!!!!!

[@aidanchan9582]

wuts the background music at the beginning of this video

[@atrixmj]

does this work with solids or is it just images?

[@shanuhmd4429]

thnx

[@wr5023]

a true angel

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Jesuss. Thanksss mann shoutout from Brasil

[@ryanakitchen]

I am having trouble with layers that are children of another layer that won't disappear when the parent does because of the trikmat, and I can't assign all of the children layers to trikmat because only the layer below the trikmat layer can be trikmated to it. .....any help?

[@HeavyMetalHalf-Wit]

Is there a way to add 2 track mattes?

[@bonkthesystem]

Thanks, I used this tutorial to create an animated version of my channel logo.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Thanks so much for watching! I'm glad I was able to help you out :) If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so to help me grow my channel. Cheers, Phil

[@gk2454]

Stupid question, but at 3:16, I clicked on the graph editor, but did not see a curved graph. i instead saw a line graph. How do i get that curved graph? Thanks

[@JucoskiGetnuked]

holy shit thank you i was searching for that

[@N_A__]

I need to do the exact opposite of this tutorial. I need objects to disappear once they move past a specific point.

[@danielkolev]

Thanks for the video. Is there a way to move a mask in a video from one location to another immediately without animation ? Thanks in advance.

[@danielkolev]

@Evelyn Mcgetrick Thanks !

[@philipsavage4396]

ok but now my text has disappeared, can this effect be used with other layers and masks?

[@MrMacRight]

Amazing! Wish I found you earlier dude.

[@TheGeoffMan]

Does anyone know how I can do this exact thing but in Premiere Pro and not After Effects?

[@glopesmartins]

*So, do it on After Effects, them go to Premiere and import the composition to add in the timeline* Sorry by my english skills.

[@jeremyadventure]

Gabriel is correct. Luckily all adobe products integrate very well with each other