Masking in After Effects Ep24/48 [Adobe After Effects for Beginners]

In this video, I will be introducing you to masking, and showing you how to use it.
Enjoy!
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TOPICS COVERED
00:00:00 Start
00:01:07 What masking is?
00:08:56 How to mask with Simple shapes
00:11:54 How to mask with The pen tool
00:21:35 How to mask with paths pasted in from Illustrator
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[@ZaidanMhmood]

Hello Gareth, I've watched at least 20 videos from this series. I love the way you explain things, it's pretty simple an repetative which helps a lot to me as a beginner. I've went from knowing almost nothing about After Effects to exporting a client work for a mobile app (Loading animation) in one day. I can't wait to proceed with the rest of the series and get to the advanced stuff. Thanks a lot for the help, this is really valuable content.

[@michalbotor]

i love how easy it is to paste a path from illustrator as a mask in after effects. wonderful.

[@ericdodier3404]

Half way through. Gonna be a long night. Ty :)

[@GarethDavidStudio]

Enjoy! Hope it helps you out! 😀

[@artbybatis]

It doesn't need so much work. Just select the shapes and place both masks in intersect inverted mode. You do not need to pre-comp the video layer.

[@J-S.P]

so instead of drawing the shapes on the Shape Layer I should draw the masks on the SWAN_2.mp4 layer?

[@SARDARru]

This is really top! Bless you :)

[@christiebat]

That was extremely useful stuff! Thank you for your work!

[@GarethDavidStudio]

You're very welcome! 😀

[@MrJimArt]

Very Well Paced And Explained. Thanks for the excellent tutorials!! (And Excellent example materials also!)

[@GarethDavidStudio]

You're very welcome! Thank you for the kind words! 😀

[@kodihewa1948]

Thank you so much.

[@emmproductions3272]

Love your stuff. This course seemed overly complex. Importing shape paths, I get it. Also as with the Crown example, basic keying would also allow for cutting the "hole" for video. Yes, there are multiple ways to do things. I am coming from a Premiere background. I am looking forward to seeing if you cover the TRACKING feature, because that is exclusive to After Effects. Btw, your videos and lessons are extremely nicely produced, so keep doing you.

[@Ankur33Goyal]

Hi mate, Do you mind sharing where did you learnt premeire?? Are there any GDS like tutorials?

[@Winwin-wp8qe]

@@Ankur33Goyal he’s too busy to answer, unlike Garreth David who he praises, he doesn’t like to share knowledge. I’m not even interested in learning about Premiere, just hate seeing this on youtube. Hope you’ve found what you were looking for cheers

[@sperkins5638]

I'm loving your course, man, but this is the first time your lessons have felt rushed/hurried to me. I've worked through this video twice now, and find the explanation of the process of working with the multiple video comp layers, from the masking to the use of effects, to be lacking in your normal standard of clarity...constructive criticism if you care, cause I am a fan. Cheers.

[@AbuAl7sn1]

I’m new also But I think he scaled the entire comp So when he pasted the shape , it will become related to the size of the entire comp So he needs to make a new comp which has the same size of the shapes comp Sorry my English isnt that good

[@lukozi01]

I understand why you had to re-compose the video layer for the second time (because you scaled and rotated video so the mask size changed proportionally) but I don't understand why you re-composed the video layer the first time... I did exactly the same steps without re-composing the video layer and results were the same. Maybe I missed something...

[@d.douglasmovingimagemedia1718]

Same here. Would be good to know why Gareth did that though. I'm sure there's a reason. Can be confusing when there's too much precomposing going on.

[@duongly]

That's a good question. Maybe, I'm guessing right now, maybe he wanted to keep the original size of the video as backup.

[@genesis2303]

@@duongly also it might be just his way of organizing things. As he shows at one of first videos in course he keeps his project files as tidy as possible (this one I will probably never learn). It also might be habit transferred from photoshop where you should make smart object (it's kind of similar to precompose) every time you want to be able to adjust size of your layer without loosing quality (don't know if in after effects this rule also apply).

[@josephherrera4771]

Just to organize and having a separate place to alter the way the video looks and having a different place to alter the video in order to achieve a different task, in this case fitting it into the shapes to accomplish a lens effect?

[@abdullah.n.salah100]

great tutorial in a great series with extraordinary patient explanation. i just have one question if you gareth can answer, why did we have to precompose the glasses video and twice too

[@chathuramadusanka3829]

Love it. ❤

[@gurmeetgill6752]

Hi Gareth, Love your videos but got a little confused here. Why did you pre-compose the first time (understand the second time you did it due to scaling). I only did pre-composing once and got the same result. Was it for organization purposes? This is pertaining to the second lesson with the swans in the sunglasses. Thanks

[@NashCastanares]

I can't copy the path from the shape to paste to the sunglass pre-comp... I repeated that portion of the tutorial several times already. What happened?

[@nahrukchan]

Hi, I'm struggling with transparent pixels of images now and wandering is it possible to apply mask to layer cropping all blank pixels automatically? I can't do this in ps or somewhere else, because I use one premade composition many times, but I changed some layers every time by dragging them with Alt. I need to be sure that they will be in correct place (like I've draw it in ps) with all premade effects so that's why I import psd with only "Composition" and not "Composition - Retain layer size". Maybe you know any solution? Thanks

[@krystaljacques1295]

why is there a black star beside my pen tool? And how would I get rid of it?

[@abdullahahmad9300]

THERE IS NO MODE OPTION TO CLICK ADD?

[@daria__hot]

same problem

[@ShazidsWorld]

When I see that he click in the illustrator over the AE and it pops up right away without any lag. Inner me: I wanna die

[@ashdalat.]

your computer need help from your pocket [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]

[@ShazidsWorld]

:(

[@ashdalat.]

@@ShazidsWorld do you know which channel to learn after effect? I checked many tutorials and they lead me nowhere, 90 % is moving shape and after that nothing else.

[@ShazidsWorld]

@@ashdalat. This type of course is for beginners and very basic. I think you are looking for some advanced courses. You can cheak skillshare.com for the advance course. But it will cost you money.

[@ashdalat.]

@@ShazidsWorld hmm, i have basic knowledge of blender but sometime making a small effect in blender is too hard, then i decided to check after effect to solve this problem, after 3 days i found out that it is very hard to use, harder then blender.

[@CHENPUTENG]

Why Precompose Sunglass viseo

[@cherie3000]

i am confused as to why when we paste the mask path it is smaller....

[@chocoboasylum]

Because you need to make a composition out of the resized and rotated video first. Else it will past the mask path on there to match the video layer and not with the original mask specs

[@MersadieOlit0n]

This is a overcomplicated Mess that will frustrate & turn away ALOT BUT STICK WITH IT he just did TOO MUCH in this video

[@BuzzChronicles]

this one was horrible i dont get why you did it this long complicated way

[@smky6868]

I find the way he adds the swans to the sunglasses overly complicated. I just turned the opacity of the video sequence down so I could see the picture of the woman wearing glasses underneath and put the mask directly onto the video layer, then played around with some blending modes and opacity to make it look as realistic as in his final product. Also i dont get what the purpose of the black and blue solids are in the first example.

[@OmJoshi-gh3fr]

true

[@BuzzChronicles]

@@OmJoshi-gh3fr damn its been 4 years & i havnt start learning 3d as yet

[@OmJoshi-gh3fr]

@@BuzzChronicles why bruh

[@BuzzChronicles]

@@OmJoshi-gh3fr procrastination