A Guide to After Effects Masks

[@movingthatneedle4625]

Incredibly well explained. I wish all KZbin tutorials were as good as this. Bravo. 5 stars.

[@novelafilmacademy]

Excellent guide on using masks in After Effects! Your thorough explanations and practical examples make this complex topic much more approachable.

[@JWP452]

The BEST After Effects tutorial I've ever seen! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@karingumbinner7369]

The Pan Behind tool tip at 6:04 is exactly what I was looking for!! Thank you.

[@danie7968]

I finally feel like I understand something now because of this video! Thanks a ton

[@kylehamrickmotion]

Literally the point. Yay!

[@ibeenjammin]

6:40 "Oops" Nice acting, Kyle.

[@thePaintedMoon]

Thank you so much for this! As an experienced Photoshop user learning AE 2020 I was frustrated always expecting AE to work similar to Photoshop, and to a certain extent it does. but this helped clarify the differences with regard to masking.

[@Litiniti]

The reason I'll keep on coming back to your channel is because of how explanatory you made this video and the fact that you pointed out important things that I never even knew I needed. Thank you 🫶

[@komalkr4222]

That was a good video. Learned a few pro tips. Really helped.

[@Asagohantabemasuka]

Thank you!!! Super useful video and explanation.

[@Back14Packer]

This was fantastic! I am very new to AE and just wanted to do something simple with a more complex shape, a heart, in a video and had no idea what to do. And masks were the answer all along. At first, they seem really intimidating, which they may be as you do more complicated animations, although your tutorial simplified them so well. Thank you so much!!!

[@theotheslav]

AMAZING TUTORIAL! THANK YOU SIR

[@katonsamudro4852]

Thank you mate! actually so helpful!

[@dariofromthefuture3075]

THANK YOU. So straight forward. And thanks for including that misstep. Those are essential for newbies to learn how to get around.

[@raerickson3470]

Thank you for a clear and succinct overview of masks! Good teaching!

[@amitjangid1116]

Best tutorial on masking FR

[@colineccles5102]

Really good video man.

[@TheVRtist]

Very informative! Thank you!

[@alexlamon723]

Very helpful! Thank you!

[@schoolofmotion]

You're very welcome!

[@KyleZager]

A Kyle video!! 🥬🍅🥕🥒🥑

[@ronpaul9172]

OMG, I am soooo glad I found your channel.

[@motioncircles]

This is perfect! Thanks for creating this video, tons of tips!

[@LoganPinney]

Thanks Kyle!!!! Fundamentals done right!! SOM has helped me SO much. Mask up ppl!!!

[@itsaer0]

Logan Pinney yo could you help when i render a regular video with no masking it renders perfectly but when i mask a video the video doesnt render fully

[@LoganPinney]

@@itsaer0 hmm very strange. You may have accidentally turned off effects for that layer, it is a small icon beside the layer name, you will have to google what it looks like. Are you exporting to media encoder and output to .mp4?

[@itsaer0]

Logan Pinney i am exporting as rendering queue

[@uzur4217]

Thank you for this. I was trying to get into motion things in after effects and then I found you, and you've helped me a lot. That intro was epic btw

[@prahsess4207]

Incredible review and breakdown! Thank you guys for all the hard work put into this!

[@revlovemountain]

Second video of Kyle's from SOM that I've found super helpful. Thanks!

[@kylehamrickmotion]

👀

[@paullafaele]

Great video, so clear and easy to follow. Thanks!

[@schoolofmotion]

Happy it helped!

[@doom728]

This helped thank you

[@afhamghuman2893]

great tutorial

[@luvriia]

6:24 I need thisss! Tysm for this 🤩😩

[@EXPstreams]

Thanks for this, S.O.M is amazing, learnt so freaking much from you guys incredible work

[@mohamedheshamelsayed3886]

thank you man

[@OORVOKKI]

Thank you very much for an excellent eplanation of the mask. I am a beginner in Ae and Motion Grapic.

[@Awakenbeing]

most elaborate Explanation for AEA mask. Nice tuts.

[@noufalbinzainudheen5633]

THIS IS WHAT I LOOKING FOR THANKS SIR!

[@sanjeebanmaji8612]

Wow! Very nice tutorial. I like the innovative way to say bye👍👍

[@clementv4171]

thanks for all your cool tips

[@klaralach8807]

Thank you, this was actually so helpful:) great job

[@rodrigoreis7]

Thank you!!!!!!

[@eirikur73]

Thank you, great tutorial!

[@nirajfilms1040]

You present so beautifully the topics...looks so amazing

[@enyarivhe]

thanks!! your videos are great

[@avix4726]

Thank you

[@valtabohm]

this was 101% usefull

[@KingsDenStudios]

Nice and concise! Appreciated 🙏🙏

[@MohamedSalem-tj7jn]

Very cool,thanks for help❤❤

[@prashant00869]

So simply explained. Thank you :)

[@racheltang9985]

thank you that was so super helpful!

[@junidacosta5977]

Thank you a lot! It helped me! 😍

[@EldrinBernardino]

you had me subscribe at the intro

[@rsucreative]

its very use for beginer really

[@telposh]

Definitely the most pro tutorial I have found...just a great job FIVE STARS FOR YOU!! THANKS

[@moonzero-xm7014]

very helpful! thanks a lot! :)

[@freeloader69]

I was really hoping this video would help me understand why I can't create a mask over my single shape layer (the only layer in the entire project, as I'm just starting), but I'm not seeing the issue even after watching this video. I started a new project, created a star and keyframed it to scale up from 0-50% from the center and rotate in 145 degrees. Then, with the layer selected, I created a rectangle from just outside the viewing area at the top right to the center (as shown in the video you guys did on the benefits of precomposing - with the rotating masked squares). All it did was create a new rectangle shape within my layer. Creating a new mask from the layer menu isn't working either. I can't even figure out how to draw a path with the pen tool and convert it into a mask. Nothing is working!

[@kylehamrickmotion]

I know this is a very old question, but - masks and shape layers use the same tools, but are different things. You *can* make a mask on a shape layer, but you need to make sure you select that before drawing. Create a shape so the shape layer has something visible. To add a mask, you need to make sure you're drawing a mask instead of a shape - there are two little icons in your top toolbar, between puppet pin and the Fill/Stroke controls. The star means you're drawing a shape, and the little checkerboard means you're drawing a mask.

[@liddovoid]

Great tutorial!! thanks

[@NawazAlamgir]

4:12 Didn't know that! just learnt something new in After Effects.. that i know pretty much everything.

[@srh9102]

thank you sir !!

[@sehbaanabbasi]

the fact that school of motion never told us how to make their own intro is funny

[@GregCalleja]

LIFE SAVOR!!!

[@sichen7093]

Thank you!

[@DavidDyer-e6x]

Why does everyone avoid talking about converting a shape layer into a mask? Like "That's a whole other topic", but where is that video??! Help!

[@carlocabantog2653]

Great teacher!!!

[@bubyoz]

so how to delete in and out tangents independently?

[@lysopanha1374]

I hope u upload tutorial more frequently, 2 - 3 videos per week.... I am really interested in your tutorial

[@liamprothero3883]

YEEEEES!!!!!! Thank you

[@armando.visuals]

This was great. Do you have any suggestions or videos about MOCHA BORIS TRACKER? Thank you

[@actionmoviefrea]

At 2:25 you say simply click and drag, but where does the dark blue layer on top come from? How do you get the color around the mask?

[@Internaut787]

Hi, there’s a quicker way of scaling a video inside a mask without scaling the mask?

[@AndrewLeonforte]

when i uses ctrl it just moves my whole project

[@ikarys5173]

the mask paths stopped showing up on my composition tab

[@HistoryHeroes]

great video

[@valeriehartman3705]

What if you have several flowers to select with the mask tool?

[@jackgu9889]

We should all sub and like cause this is very useful

[@alexandrorocca7142]

I couldn't figure out how to draw a mask from the center with Ctrl: You have to left-click with the mouse first and only then hold Ctrl down, whereas when you use Shift to draw a square or a circle it doesn't matter what you click first.

[@leandromuello]

Hi! How about Masking with 3d layers

[@hunterfate4914]

What if the mask isn't showing what you did? For example, I set the mask around my subject. Whenever I do add, it doesn't do anything nor does it show a difference.

[@OrincyWhyteDesigns]

You are sent from god!!!

[@satiready]

how can we copy the mask from a layer to another & then flip it without affecting the whole layer?

[@animatheanimationarchive7577]

how are you able to select the masks and move them? for the life of me i can't figure it out. I click where it says masks, the points are selected, but when i drag the mask it doesn't move. what am I doing wrong?

[@COMREdesign]

How can you animate the image by keeping the mask static? Like you have a long image going bottom to up and you want a specific window to show the image. TIA

[@CASIOF-91W]

Can I use a black and white png as a mask?

[@gabrielladesantis3210]

Hi there! I am curious, I have two words that I want to animate by making the first letter of the first world to move to the right into the second word which would be moving left with only the last letter remaining. So how would I get it have the letters in between disappear when I am having the words move to the center and all but two letter disappear?

[@oreowithurea5018]

After Effect Introduced roto 2.0 but never forget to use mask in this times

[@NojsGraphics]

how do you center mask tho? there are only feather, opacity, mask expansion settings in there, how do i adjust just like shape layer?

[@kylehamrickmotion]

It doesn't have those same capabilities.

[@ProDudeFilmsGaming]

I am clicking the layer, and it keeps making a shape layer. Its really starting to piss me off im doing everyhing right

[@maramam5024]

did you find a solution? I'm facing the same problem

[@snudge763]

my mask is not working with cc repetile :( how to fix this?

[@kyungminnam]

6:11 but where can I put keyframe for this movement??

[@horiza6389]

Ok but how do i make a straight line after a curve ? I tried to disabled the Rotobezier but it still dosen't work

[@debarpandebbarma8272]

i want to do masking with mask 1 but it changes to mask 2 after some time ?

[@RyanHarville]

My stuff is backwards. And it is not working. I'm so frustrated.

[@meghanwilder5195]

My tool isn't coming up. Like the mask tool isnt there. is there anything i need to download?

[@kodeth5200]

Moving a mask?

[@onewaytech5846]

Wow nice content

[@rocketleagueedits7700]

yet when i make a mask the background doesnt turn black

[@minnothing7923]

i made a mask that it's position moves on loop (with loopOut expression).. but how i apply it to a composition?

[@matilda8656]

how do i use masks and motion tile together ? let's say i've removed the borders from a video with a mask, and i want to put motion tile on it. when i zoom out however the borders that i removed create space between the videos (does that make sense ? ) basically what i'm asking is how do you "remove" the excess parts of a video that's not included inside the mask?

[@kylehamrickmotion]

The easiest route is to pre-compose the element, and crop that pre-composition to the size you want Motion Tile to actually "see." Applying Motion Tile to that pre-comp (as a layer in a parent comp) would then get you the results you're after.

[@nickgeiserr]

great

[@miIfhunter]

how can i draw a mask at a keyframe, and draw on avery keframe a new mask for the same layer?

[@mivu_]

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". But I really need this retain after :((

[@GeoffreysTube]

Africa!!!