Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #49161
From: Rich Young <aefilter@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] why isn't masking treated as an effect?
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 02:14:50 -0700 (PDT)
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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What is we lobbied Adobe to rename a Precomp to Rewire Node?  ;)

It could be part of the request for feedback about proposed change for keyboard shortcut
thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1218349


--- On Fri, 5/24/13, scott.aelist <scott.aelist@gmail.com> wrote:

From: scott.aelist <scott.aelist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] why isn't masking treated as an effect?
To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Friday, May 24, 2013, 11:16 PM

I can, but I hate precomping.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote:
> If I'm following you, why can't you apply the effect, precomp it, and then mask the precomp and add the second effect?
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> On May 24, 2013, at 3:44 PM, scott.aelist wrote:
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>> Sometimes I want to mask or roto an image and then apply an effect AFTER the mask is applied. Or sometimes I want: 1.) effect 2.) mask 3.) effect. However AE doesn't give any control for the render order for masking. Is there a reason for this, or has there simply been no demand for this type of thing?
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