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Hey everybody, I'm a beginner and I recently discovered the pan behind a mask tool. Works fine so far, but the animation behind the mask looks very stiff. When I try to make it smoother in graph editor, both mask and element start to move. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong here? Thank you!
I watched the tutorial you linked.
It's probably the worst way of doing that type of animation.
A way with less keyframes and I'd argue less trouble would be to use a Track Matte.
This is a turtorial for that: https://youtu.be/I5aqP_cn4J8?si=AwT1bc8Haa4pnFRI
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The Pan Behind tool animates the Anchor property of a layer, so I'd expect to see the layer move.
Are you trying to leave the mask in place but have the image move through it? If so, use a second layer for your image and set its track matte to the layer with the mask. This will turn off visibility of the mask layer but cut out the shape from the image layer. You can then animate the image layer to move and the mask will remain in place.
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Hi ShiveringCactus, thank you for your response. I am bassically trying this. At 2:20 he easy eases the animation behind the mask, but in mine it moves everything up and down...
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The Pan Behind/Anchor Point tool (y), moves the anchor point of the selected layer. If you have set keyframes, you get a path, but you must open the layer in the Layer Panel and select Anchor Point to edit the path.
You can use the Graph Editor set to Speed instead of Value to adjust the easing directly in the timeline. The Value graph is almost unusable for any kind of time changes and should not be used for any position or anchor point (x, y, z) property editing. That is what the Layer view is for.
Without seeing your timeline I can't give you specific instructions but maybe this tutorial will help:
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Hi Rick Gerard, thank you for your response! I am bassically trying this. At 2:20 he easy eases the animation behind the mask, but in mine it moves everything up and down...
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Try this workflow:
The tutorial misses and fails to emphasize steps eleven and twelve.
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Hi Rick Gerard, thank you for your help!! I used thepixelsmith's solution with the shape layer, and it worked.
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I watched the tutorial you linked.
It's probably the worst way of doing that type of animation.
A way with less keyframes and I'd argue less trouble would be to use a Track Matte.
This is a turtorial for that: https://youtu.be/I5aqP_cn4J8?si=AwT1bc8Haa4pnFRI
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Hi thepixelsmith, this worked perfectly, thank you so much!!!