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November 21, 2020
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Stroke mask circle logo reveal issues

  • November 21, 2020
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I'm attempting to animate a logo which is a circle with cour leaves at the end. I'm try to use a stroke mask to reveal the logo. I have mask 1 which reveals the main circle, and separate masks (2, 3, 4) to reveal each leaf. Everything works fine when I change the reveal settings from "on original image" to "reveal original image" for any of each of the single masks, but as soon as I apply this to multiple masks at the same time, none of them work. Any ideas why this is happening? Any fixes?

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Community Expert
November 21, 2020

If I understand your project correctly you have a bunch of masks with stroke applied that you are trying to use to reveal another layer. It sounds like you have multiple copies of the Stroke effect applied to the same layer. I suggest that you only use one copy of the Stroke effect and select All Masks and Sequentially. Set the Paint Style to Reveal Original Image, and set all masks to None. 

If you are just drawing circles to use as a matte for another layer I would use a shape layer instead of masks and the stroke effect. You've got a lot more options.

 

The only other option is to put each circle on a separate layer, animate each circle, then pre-compose them all and use them as a track matte or apply multiple copies of Set Matte to the layer you want to reveal. 

Mylenium
Legend
November 21, 2020

You need to educate yourself about mask modes and try to learn how to structure your work by pre-composing to isolate individual processing steps. trying to do everything in one step on one layere rarely ever gives you the results you may want. Some effects have specific requirements just like the internal pipeline has a specific order in which masks, effects and so on are processed under what conditions. A short excursion to the online help and reading up on this stuff is strongly advised. This stuff can't be understood intuitively, at least not in a simple and immediate way (things would only "click" eventually if you did this a hundred times and failed every time).

 

Mylenium

Participant
November 21, 2020

Thanks for the advice.