AE help

[rosannaw7860180]

Hi,

I'm trying to move over from creating animations in photoshop to AE. I want to work out how I can use AE to speed up my work flow and push animation abilities.

I have watched and worked through some AE tutorials and there is one that I'm now trying to apply specifically to the way I work, so that I can practice this not just with the pre made AE tutorial file downloads.

So my Q...  I'm trying to work out how to create an animation whereby multiple videos play within the different shapes below. So there would be a different video in each shape simultaneously (one has sky, the other a flower etc).

Is my best bet to create custom masks for each of these using the pen tool? Can I then copy and paste these maks to multiple videos/stills if say I wanted three different videos to play within the the star shape.

Thanks in advance,

Best,

R

[Dave_LaRonde]

1. Change that gray background to a transparent background.
2. Duplicate the layer as many times as you need to make one layer for each shape.
3. On each layer, make a rough mask around one of the shapes -- you don't have to be precise, but don't include parts of the other shapes.
4. Add one video to the comp.  Put the video layer UNDER the desired shape, and use the shape as a track matte -- an Alpha Inverted Matte.
5. Parent the video layer to the shape.  Animate the position & scale of of the video layer as desired to keep the video subject within the shape.  Now you can move the shape as you want, and the video layer will follow it.
6. Repeat Steps 4 & 5 as many times as necessary.

[rosannaw7860180]

Thank you for helping Dave! Saved me a lot of time there

[rosannaw7860180]

A start!