| Spotlight Masking of it's own
kind
Let's begin. Firstly select the rectangle tool.
Draw a rectangle as big as the stage. The colour of the fill should
be the colour that you want to your spotlight mask to be.
Next select the text tool and type out the text over the box on the stage.
Make sure the colour of the text is the colour you want in the final result(of
the text).
Create a new layer above the present layer and draw two circles and place
them as shown. Be sure to delete the outlines of the circles before placing
them.
Next insert a keyframe at frame no.5 and place the smaller circle right
next to the larger one. Make sure there is some distance between them
both as shownin the zoomed in image.
Insert a keyframe at frame no.25 and place the larger circle at the end
of the text.
Insert another keyframe at frame no.45 and take the larger circle to
the same place as it was in frame no.5(I recommend that you should just
copy and paste it). Now insert a keyframe at frame no.50 and take the
smaller circle to its original place(as in frame no.1). At this point
your movie is useless. To get the desired effect we will have to shape
tween the top layer(all the KEYFRAMES not frames) and then mask it. Before
masking your timeline should look like this-
To do the masking bit you will have to right click on the the top layer
and select mask. The second layer will automatically be masked if you
do it this way.
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