Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #54687
From: Roei Tzoref <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Mask to position offset
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:06:19 +0300
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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mask-to-position only makes a perfect match for a comp size layer.

if you want the mask path as position key frames you could make
the path on a new dummy solid layer at the comp size and then copy and paste it to position keyframes
of your target layer, get rid of the dummy layer, and you won't get any position shift.

no expression or transformation changes necessary for the pasted layer.


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Phil Bearman <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
Indeed! I've saved it as a preset and called it "Mask Offset Correction" :-)

I made an animated font recently which involved using masks (on over one hundred different glyphs) which were then pasted as position keyframes, and all of them had to be manually shifted to the correct position - if only I'd thought to ask about this at the time I could have saved a lot of time!

Cheers,
Phil

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On 18 July 2014 15:54, rendernyc <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
no problem. had that same issue the other day, but since i was in the moment couldnt stop and see why...
just moved it where i needed it

now to remember to save this somewhere for next time :)


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Phil Bearman <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
Yes, that solves it! 

Thanks Danny, much appreciated!

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On 17 July 2014 19:19, rendernyc <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
I think you need to get rid of the transform made to the text layer...

a quick test with a layer that is not at the comp center... draw mask, copy, paste to brush position, and then add this expression, and it should line up

(position-([width,height]/2))+value


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Phil Bearman <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
Hi all,

This has been bugging me for years so I thought I'd ask the group!

When you draw a mask on a text layer, and then copy and paste into position keyframes (eg. in "Write On"), there is always an offset (presumably due to it being a continuously rasterised layer).

Does anybody know if there's a way of calculating that offset, and therefore write a script to translate the position keyframes to line up with the original mask? 

Or does such a script already exist?

(I know you can get around this by pre-composing, but I'd rather not do that).

Any insight much appreciated!

Phil
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