Confusion on Softening Mask Edge in AECS6
<p>So I am fairly inexperienced with After Effects. But I am making a title for a video project and am having a hard time figuring something out. I have some text that slides over, and appears once it is in the masked area. However this is a very hard edge and doesn't look the best. How do I soften that edge? I tried making another shape and blurring it and then masking that over the other shape but that didn't work. I tried Googling but it was full of people saying you cannot feather a shapes edges in AE.</p>

<p>I would use the mask in my image directly with the feather option but then that mask moves with my image, and that's not what I want.</p>