Everything you need to know about masks in After Effects

Everything you will ever need to know about masks and masking in after effects explained in 5 minutes 🎬🎥 GET 70% OFF ENVATO ELEMENTS 📽🎞 https://1.envato.market/c/2894248/298... 💥 🔥 ACTION VFX ⚡️☄️ https://www.actionvfx.com/?ref=flomotion -- You will find explosions as well as many different vfx elements here. 00:00 Intro 00:30 The Pen Tool 00:40 Create a Mask 01:01 Mask Tools 01:14 Short Cuts 02:03 Mask Properties 02:42 add / subtract covert vertex 03:08 Mask Feather Tool 03:16 Compositiong Options 03:54 Roto / Rotoscoping 05:06 Mask Tracker 05:24 Face Tracking (Detailed Features) 05:36 Auto Trace 05:53 Mask Effects / Stroke Effect 05:58 Text follow Path 06:12 Set first Vertex 06:32 Create Masks form Text 06:36 Outro In this 5 minute quick tip tutorial video, I will show you everything you will need to know about masks. I will start with the very basics, on how masks work and what they are good for! I will go over the different tools to create them and explain in detail all steps you need to know. Learn all about the pen tool, the rectangel tool, the rounded rectangel tool, the ellipse tool, the polygon tool and the star tool! Learn how to add and remove vertexes. How to convert them and how to feather a mask with its properties as well as the mask feather tool. You will also learn some pro tips on how to create a mask with the least amount of points and I will guide you through some handy and helpfull shortcuts as well as the differnten masking options such as add subtract intersect and so on. If you haven't heared about compositing options then this will be a gamechanger for you, as with this tipp you can mask out effects on layers. Up next will be rotoscoping, I will show you the best workflows and some handy features, such as the mask tracker and the face tracker within after effects. But that is not all, in an easy to understand way I will show you tips for beginners as well as tricks for pros / professionals. Auto trace will be the next topic and here you will learn how to automatically mask out images based on their alpha channel or on their luma values and you can also mask out not only still images, but whole footage clips! To end this I will show you some examples on how to use masks for specific effects, such as the stroke effect, or how to make a text follow a path or mask. You will also learn how to set your "fist vertex" and how to create masks from a text. VIDEO EQUIPMENT: Camera: Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K: https://amzn.to/3hDCp5e​​ Lenses: Panasonic Leica 8-18 mm F2.8-4.0: https://amzn.to/3fy0dWr​​ Panasonic Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm F2.8: https://amzn.to/30VGLPg​​ Monitor: Feelworld FW 279 4k: https://amzn.to/2N8SpOH​​ Extra Stuff: Metabones EF-MFT Speed Booster: https://amzn.to/3hEEldE​​ PHOTO EQUIPMENT Camera: Canon EOS R: https://amzn.to/3fv7rua​​ Lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm F4: https://amzn.to/2BmNirG​​ Canon 50mm F1.8 STM: https://amzn.to/30SWgaE​​ Extra Stuff: Canon EF - EOS R Adapter: https://amzn.to/2Bl1IIu​​ DJI Ronin Gimbal: https://amzn.to/2Bhu6eH​​ AUDIO EQUIPMENT: Mic Shure SM7b: https://amzn.to/2UYjpVv​​ Mic Rode smartLav+: https://amzn.to/3df11xG​​ Interface Focusrite Scarlett: https://amzn.to/2YdDWHF​​ Headphones AKG K702: https://amzn.to/2YaLCKw​​ PC & HARDWARE: HP ZBook 17: https://amzn.to/2CeBUyd​​ McBook Pro: https://amzn.to/2UXRN2D​​ Follow me for more tutorials: Website: https://www.flomotion.eu/​​ Instagram:   / flomotion.eu   Facebook:   / ​​   YouTube:    / flomotioneu​​   #flomotion #aftereffects #masks #roto