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Please help! How do I unlink a mask from a layer in Motion?

How do I "unlink" a mask from a layer so when the object on the layer moves, the mask stays still?


(Similar to how you unlink a mask in Photoshop by clicking on the link icon beside the layer thumbnail)ghgh


This is propably very simple, but I can´t figure this out or find it anywhere searching on the net or in the manual (already wasted almost two hours on this and my deadline is coming uncomfortably close...)


Hope somebody can help I´m getting desperate now 😟

Posted on Feb 22, 2015 7:15 PM

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Feb 24, 2015 9:55 AM in response to Stranded Starfish

Would moving the mask to the Group containing the layer you want to animate give you the result you're looking for?


Your layers list would look like this:


User uploaded file


If there are other layers in the group, then you would need to nest the masked group so as to not affect the other layers.




You could also add a shape and use that as an image mask which includes a stencil option.

Draw your shape

Select the image you want to mask

Add Image Mask (shift+command+m) via the object menu

Drag your shape to the image mask


Your layer list would look like this:

User uploaded file

Please help! How do I unlink a mask from a layer in Motion?

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