I am masking some things out of a scene and I was doing most of my work pretty zoomed in.
I realized I needed another mask when I zoomed out to look at my project. So I went back to the point where I needed another mask and added it in.
However now whenever I proceed to the next frame that mask vanishes and I have to keep re-adding it instead of just making point adjustments.
Is there anything I can do to make the new mask persist so I can just make point modifcations?
Thanks.
@Brackstone Are you Bezier masking or pan/crop masking?
@Brackstone Are you Bezier masking or pan/crop masking?
I am doing Pan/Crop masking since I need to change/animate the mask between keyframes.
@Brackstone Yes, there's something weird going on here. I've created 4 masks at 4 keyframes. At each keyframe the mask for that keyframe plus the masks for keyframes that occur before it are shown. You can then select any of the 4 masks by selecting the normal edit tool (the slanted arrow icon) then point it to the edge of the mask and double left-click. The mask will then have the bounding box and the rotate circle. You can the adjust as you wish.
However, I've found that every other mask disappears as you proceed through the keyframes. Unless someone can tell me if I'm going wrong somewhere, this appears to be a bug.
I am going to make a guess and say you added the Keyframe for the second mask before the keyframe of the first mask. If you did , this is what I think is going on. Each keyframe is remembering the status of all masks. So when it hits the second keyframe (which is your first mask you made) it sees that the second mask didn't exist when you created it, so it goes away. A workaround is to copy the first mask keyframe, make a newkeyframe and paste and then add your new mask. At least that works for me in Version 12. It could be a bug, but it is probably working as programmed.
I found this out by creating consecutive keyframes adding a new mask each time. When I changed the order of the keyframes, the masks would disappear.
@Former user Each keyframe is remembering the status of all masks.
That makes sense.
@Brackstone I can't figure out if @Former user's workaround would get around your problem. I guess the lesson here is, prepare the workflow in advance before creating multiple masks.