Create Disappearing Scrolling Text

I am trying to creating scrolling text that disappears at a certain point on the screen so it looks as it is going behind my actors head and disappears.  I am having some problems and have looked online but have not been able to find any solutions.  I am pretty sure that I have to create a mask but every time I try to create a mask the button is grayed out.
Any suggestions and steps would be much apprieciated!!!
Nick Farrell

hi
are you trying to mask the text layer? you cant do that you'd have to put the text into a group of its own and mask that.
However thats not the way you'd probably want to do it. You should probably mask the actors layer to isolate them. Create a duplicate of your shot, create a roto mask to the top one to isolate the actors. Put your animated text inbetween the full shot and the isolated actors one, hey presto the tet will dissappear behind them.
Before you spen 5 1/2 days rotoscoping your actors, create very rough masks first, chances are you might not have to cerate too much detail in the mask. and create many smaller masks rather than one huge unweildly one.
hth
adam

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