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I perform the action Mike is talking about all the time. Double-click a mask tool and it creates a mask fit to the size of the bounding box of the text layer. Super quick and easy. Not sure why you are getting bad results Mike. Perhaps text is set to paragraph text or something? Is there a way to reset default text settings, as AE remembers the last setting you used?
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On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Todd Kopriva wrote:
Leading question: What do you think a "layer-sized" mask would be for a text 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 defined 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.
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Mike Abbott
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Subject: [AE] double clicking a mask on a type layer
OK - this one has me scratching my head and wondering what's going on...
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.
'Mask at layer size' works as expected if I double click the mask tool
with any other type of layer.
Investigating further I now get the same behaviour on 5.5, 6 and CC -
all installed on this machine.
So I guess it's a system or font related issue - Win 7 64.
Anyone ever seen anything like this? Or have I missed something, or...
Mike
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