# Simple or difficult? Dynamic masking

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-or-difficult-dynamic-masking/211140
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 27, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-or-difficult-dynamic-masking/211140 "2006-12-27T21:09:34Z")
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### Author: ![Soig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Soig](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soig)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-or-difficult-dynamic-masking/211140/1 "2006-12-27T21:09:34Z")

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Ok guys, here’s my story… I want to mask a movie clip that has dynamic text. Seems easy right? I follow the tutorial found here ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/maskfonts.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/maskfonts.htm)) and it sort of works.

I wind up with an SWF file that masks everything EXCEPT the dynamic text. So whether I want it there or not, the text is present. You can see an example here: [http://www.scarboni.com/temp/about.html.](http://www.scarboni.com//temp/about.html)

Basically, I just want to mask everything including the text until I’m ready to see it… Any thoughts??? Thanks