How can I move an object that has a mask and a motion path, without it adding more motion path?

[Crissy-D]

Need to shift an animated object that has a mask. When I go to do this it adds an additional dotted green line (a motion path). How can I prevent that from happening? I just want to re-position this object/clip.

Thank you.

[kglad]

it's not clear what timeline's are involved. eg, are you talking about a movieclip on a parent timeline that you want to motion tween?  if so, is the mask on the movieclip's timeline and do you want that to follow the same motion tween?

[Crissy-D]

The layer object with the mask was tweened along a path in the main timeline. I found when I double-clicked on that track in the timeline, it brings me to the base graphical layer where I was able to manually move a) the object b) the mask.

Is that the best recommended method? You cannot make such a move in the main, master timeline, correct (otherwise it adds more animatics...it adds additional path to the existing motion path)?

[kglad]

you have a movieclip on the main timeline in one layer, correct?

you have a mask for that movieclip in a layer above the movieclip's layer, correct?

you have motion tweened that movieclip on the main timeline between frames x and y (eg, 10 and 20) and now you want to add another motion tween (further down the main timeline) between frames y+z and w (eg, 30 and 40)?

[Crissy-D]

No, I didn't want to add another motion tween at all. I just wanted to re-position the placement of this mini animation on the stage without it applying an additional motion tween.

[kglad]

create another layer and keyframe (in that layer and copy/paste your object where you want.  

add an empty keyframe to your motion tween layer where you want that object to be removed.