Return-Path: Received: from exprod6og122.obsmtp.com ([64.18.1.238] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5313872 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 01:33:28 +0100 Received: from outbound-smtp-2.corp.adobe.com ([193.104.215.16]) by exprod6ob122.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUqezd+2rZllgtjqcAMOBi9l6H2bPhvTA@postini.com; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:36:10 PST Received: from inner-relay-2.corp.adobe.com (inner-relay-2.adobe.com [153.32.1.52]) by outbound-smtp-2.corp.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id rBB0a5pT007248 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:36:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nahub01.corp.adobe.com (nahub01.corp.adobe.com [10.8.189.97]) by inner-relay-2.corp.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id rBB0a43N001132 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from nambx09.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.189.47]) by nahub01.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.189.97]) with mapi; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:36:04 -0800 From: Todd Kopriva To: After Effects Mail List Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:36:03 -0800 Subject: RE: [AE] double clicking a mask on a type layer Thread-Topic: [AE] double clicking a mask on a type layer Thread-Index: Ac71+lJGcokZEsOtS5a6i2+czMhFHAADozsg Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Leading question: What do you think a "layer-sized" mask would be for a tex= t layer? Text layers don't have a set size in the same way that, say, a solid does. = Same goes for a shape layer. They can be thought of as having a size define= d by their bounding boxes, but that can obviously change from one frame to = the next. So, the thing that you're trying to do works as you would expect for layers= based on footage, but not for continuously rasterized layers that have no = source and no pre-defined size. > -----Original Message----- > From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf = Of > Mike Abbott > Sent: Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:51 > To: After Effects Mail List > Subject: [AE] double clicking a mask on a type layer >=20 >=20 >=20 > OK - this one has me scratching my head and wondering what's going on... >=20 > All of a sudden I've realised that double clicking a mask tool for a > type layer isn't giving me a type layer sized mask. I get a comp sized > mask - albeit centred on my type. >=20 > 'Mask at layer size' works as expected if I double click the mask tool > with any other type of layer. >=20 > Investigating further I now get the same behaviour on 5.5, 6 and CC - > all installed on this machine. >=20 >=20 > So I guess it's a system or font related issue - Win 7 64. >=20 > Anyone ever seen anything like this? Or have I missed something, or... >=20 >=20 >=20 > Mike >=20 > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to