Animate Behind Mask - Pan Behind In After Effects 2022 

DUDE, I went down a rabbit hole trying to find this exact video. Everyone makes it so complicated. This is stupid simple thank you!

for those who didnt get it to work, watch 0:38 and make sure you have both mask path and position keyframes selected when moving with the pan behind tool. I was so confused and did not realized I had to select the mask path as well. Terrible ux design from adobe. Great tutorial though had he not explained about the feature animating the mask too I would have not figured out the issue. Would be better if the information was displayed more linearly however.

that saved me, thank you so much !

This tutorial should have more views! A very clear explanation of this tool, thanks!

Ah, thank you, and you made it easy to understand :) Subscribed :)

thank you!

Hot tip: if, when you get to the keyframe easing part, your graph editor looks nothing like Video Mark's, right click in the graph editor and make sure that you have 'Edit Speed Graph' selected! I thought I was going absolutely nuts because my graph looked nothing like his - it's because I had 'Edit Value Graph' selected instead. Great tutorial!

It's hard to get this one right, but finally foun it, thanks bro!, most people teach about animating the mask but not the shape inside.

There is no position for value for the mask. It's not there. There is a position for the layer we are masking, NOT the mask itself. Clearly I see it on your screen, why don't I have the same options?

Thaaaaank you!

Goodness, I thought that pan was just for 3D layers, amazing man, thanks!

Thanks

Thank you! You made my day!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Thank you, it was driving me crazy that there wasn't a way to do this!

Thank you. I found pan behind, but I didn't see mask path before.

WHY don't they just add a "lock mask position" path option??

When selecting all the nodes to add Easy Ease it seems to move the mask as well, messing up the pan behind effect, unlike in your example.

Also, how do you move the layer precisely, rather than using the tool to move it manually? Every time i change the x position value the mask moves. Great tutorial btw

Thank you for the video I've been working on this for hours. It blows my mind that Adobe charges a subscription which basically makes the price infinite for the software and it is so unintuitive clunky and confusing to use.

I'm trying this on a 3d layer(which is actually a 2d image) and can't seem to get it work..

If it still doesn't work, this one worked for me Using masks on the actual text layers to do these type of moves can be very painful, because the position of the mask and the text are always linked, so there is no independence. The faster and easier way to what you want to do is to use a solid or shape layer as a Track Matte. This way the matte shape replaces the mask as a totally independent layer, so you can animate both the matte shape and the text layer freely without upsetting each other. Create a solid above the text layer. sized or scaled to match your previous mask. Set the Track Matte setting of the text layer below to Alpha Inverted Matte. AE should automatically turn off visibility of the matte layer. An inverse Alpha Matte acts like a reverse stencil: the text will be visible anywhere in your comp, UNLESS it is behind the matte layer.

Hmm have they changed this cos its moving the mask still

Adobe should find another solution for this. It is so counter-intuitive.

i dont have a position stop watch under mask

And yet still my mask is moving

I'm losing my freaking mind, AE is so dumb haha🥲