One way to improve masking
I have often praised the masking in Hitfilm as some of the easiest to apply. In fact for me at least it is the easiest to apply, Easy to rearrange and zoom in and out moving around the image. That part is great. But it seems to have one massive flaw, and I don't know why they have it work this way. Maybe there is an option I'm missing, that would be great if there was. But the problem goes something like this diagram
Imagine this triangle as an animated mask. When we get to the 3rd keyframe we add an additional anchor point. As a result of doing this the shape of the original key frame changes as if that anchor point has always been there. This is extremely frustrating for longer more complicated animated masks. And the only way I know to get around it is to create all the anchor points you are going to use from the get go. So the simple way to improve masking is to simply not retroactively add those anchor points. Now can someone please tell me I'm wrong and there's an easy way to fix this?
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I really wish someone would tell me I'm wrong and all I have to do to avoid this is this that or the other.
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Nope you're correct, a Hitfilm mask cannot have a variable amount of points across its lifetime and adding points on later keyframes means that point has "always" been there. I'm not sure if there's an existing feature request about this.
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I wonder if this is a result of spaghetti code or if they actually thought it was a good idea. I can't think of positive.
