- Home /
- Remove Unnecessary Mask Keyframes
Remove Unnecessary Mask Keyframes
-
Compatibility After Effects Please check exact version compatibility under the "COMPATIBILITY" tab below
Author: nab

Add Your tags
CloseAllows you to remove 'unnecessary' keyframes generated by the built-in mask tracker. It will look at the mask's tracker-generated every-frame keyframes and remove those frames that fall under a threshold of being similar to their predecessor.
Two passes are executed: removal and reinforcement.
The removal pass consists of removing keyframes that are too similar to the previous one. Two keyframes are considered similar when none of the vertices has moved more than the specified (removal) threshold.
The reinforcement pass analyzes every successive pair of the remaining keyframes. When a vertex has moved more than the (reinforcement) threshold, a previously removed keyframe is reintroduced in the middle of the two keyframes. This phase is repeated until every pair satisfies the condition. The percentage of keyframe reduction is written to the Info palette.
Splash photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash

After Effects | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6 |
---|
1.0 (Current version) - Jan 15, 2021
1.0 - Jan 14, 2021
-
BAO Plugins
- Compatibility After Effects
BAO Distortion Bundle
Get all of BAO's distortion plugins and save 25%. Use BAO Boa to distort layers along mask paths, BAO Layer Sculptor to warp and sculpt layers with extreme precision and BAO Joint to connect and distort a layer between 2 different parents.
-
Marco Sanasi
- Compatibility After Effects
Mask Transformer
Enable masks transformations, with real values input, and motion paths.
-
Nataworkstudio
- Compatibility After Effects
After Keying
Bring your green screen compositing to the next level with After Keying. Restore lost hair with the Refine Details feature and integrate any object to your scene by adding Atmosphere in one click.
-
Chris Zwar
- Compatibility After Effects
Masks to Cropped Layers II
Masks to Cropped Layers II is a utility that helps to animate vector graphics, as well as improving the performance of vfx compositing. It works on layers that have multiple masks, for example when artwork is pasted from Illustrator, or when areas are tracked in Mocha. Each mask is copied to a new solid (for animation) or used to create a pre-comp. Each new layer is cropped to the size of the mask, providing flexibility for animation while dramatically improving performance.
-
Plugin Everything
- Compatibility After Effects
Effect Matte
Effect Matte adds a perfectly sized and customizable matte to your layer, removing the need for an additional layer to act as a track matte.
-
Michael Delaney
- Compatibility After Effects
Keysmith
Manipulate keyframes and property channels precisely in a compact UI.Add to Cart
-
nab
- Compatibility After Effects
LockProperties
Locks selected properties by adding an expression with the current value.Add to Cart$9.99 -
nab
- Compatibility After Effects
Randomizer
Assigns random values within a certain range to the transform properties of the selected layers.Add to Cart$19.99 -
nab
- Compatibility After Effects
TrackerViz
Provides a tool box for visualizing positional data. Indispensable if you do any kind of serious tracking in After EffectsAdd to Cart$29.99 -
nab
- Compatibility After Effects
AutoOrientCamera
Creates a new camera and sets point of interest, position and orientation keyframes so that the camera successively faces each comp layer.Add to Cart$9.99 -
nab
- Compatibility After Effects
ReverseMaskPath
Reverses the direction of the selected masks.Add to Cart$9.99 -