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Mask properties

Mask properties - After Effects Tutorial

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Mask properties

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- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and open the composition named 4.2 Mask Properties. Expand this folder, expand compositions, and now 4.2 Mask Properties, simply double-click it. And in here, we're going to see a solid that was already created, and it has already a mask. Click on the layer name, and you can clearly see the mask. In here, let's just go over some of the properties of the mask. In the timeline, if it's not visible, go ahead and press the letter M for mask. I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing, and this is going to show you mask one and the mask path. Collapse the mask one section, and then expand it again, and now you're going to see four properties, which are mask path, mask feather, mask opacity, and mask expansion. So these are pretty simple. Let me just for now skip the mask path, and let's go to the mask feather. In here, you're going to see that by default, unlike with other Adobe programs,…

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