AE effect how to?
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It baffles me why you would want an online tutorial to figure out how to mask a simple shape?
All of the tutorials you need are inside your After Effects Help file.Always RTAEH!
Go Help/After Effects Help:
Working with Masks and Transparency
--------------------------------Understanding transparency in After Effects
Using a footage item with an alpha channel
Working with masks
Creating masks
Drawing rectangular and oval masks
About Mask Paths
Drawing a Bezier mask with the pen tool
Selecting masks and control points
Scaling and rotating selected masks or points
Changing the shape of a mask
Feathering mask edges
Adjusting the edges of a mask
Adjusting the opacity of a mask
Specifying which parts of a mask are inside and outside
Moving a mask and panning a layer behind a mask
Specifying one mask as the target for animation
Animating a mask
Importing masks from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
Applying effects to a mask
Creating visible lines and solid shapes from masks
Controlling how masks in the same layer interact
Using mask modes
Modifying multiple masks
Locking a mask
Reusing a mask
Creating track mattes and traveling mattes
Using layer modes
Creating transparency using keying