Masking and cropping

Since we now understand grouping, when we work with rotations.…There's one more really great feature that also…utilizes the power of groups, masking and cropping.…In this lesson we're going to reveal a logo with an…animated mask and also look at how to crop an image.…We'll start by opening Samoca mask start.…Next we'll to go to the elements and we'll insert a rectangle.…And create a kind of a lower thirds effect.…We'll turn off the border.…And then we're going to sample a color…from the yellow part of this background painting.…

Next I'll go to the elements icon and insert the image of the Samoca logo.…Over the left side of our lower third bar and resize it slightly.…Next, with the shift key, I select the bar and the…logo and then hit Cmd + Opt + G to group.…You'll notice that we get the magenta box around our grouping.…That signifies that this is a group.…Down on the timeline we get the group layer and the disclosure…triangle and the logo and rectangle that are part of this group.…To animate reveal this from left to right, let's go up to the…