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
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    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

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