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	Re: Problems Animating Logo using a Track Matte by Dan Fredley on Jun 1, 2012 at 8:32:14 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum The logo needs to be below the square shape layer in the timeline window. Make sure both layers are visible at this point.In the comp window make sure the top of the square shape layer is at the top of the logo. Animate the logo so that it comes abo


	Re: "Create Shape from Vector Layer" causes AI file to disappear by Dan Fredley on Jun 1, 2012 at 8:16:46 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Try uploading your AI file so I can take a look. But you can also do it the old fashioned way: Enable AICB in illustrator, choosing how you want to copy (I usually choose "Preserve Paths") Then select the paths and copy them. Then paste them


	Problems Animating Logo using a Track Matte by Nathan Karamanski on Jun 1, 2012 at 2:47:27 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi, long time reader, first time poster. Im currently having trouble creating a simple track matte animation. Basically, my goal is to create a multi-colored logo that zips upward from inside of a track matte. I am not sure if this is the techniqu


	Re: Match Grain on 3D Extruded text in CS6? by Roland R. Kahlenberg on May 29, 2012 at 10:09:17 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum There are workarounds and the one to use depends on the interaction the 3D extruded text has with other layers in the comp and if Text Animator Groups were used. If there are no Text Animator Groups, set the Ray-tracing Quality to 1 or 2 and Anti


	Re: Repeat Rectangle Around a Circle by Clive Smith on May 29, 2012 at 5:57:00 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum I should have put up an image in the first place, sorry! I created this in PS. To do this in AE, I created a shape layer and put a rectangle in it. I set the anchor point below the rectangle and then added a repeater. I cannot figure out


	Re: wiggling paths consistently along their length by Nick Hill on May 24, 2012 at 10:11:53 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Cheers Dan. I also found a workaround if it's useful to anyone: 1) if the path isn't in Illustrator, paste it in 2) in Illustrator, choose Object > Path > Simplify and set curve precision to 100%. This will add a load of extra points, spaced roug


	can select area transform to shape. by gin lee on May 23, 2012 at 8:01:56 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum when i select a area. can i transform it to shape layer. is possible do this in photoshop. ellipse just for sample. tks~~


	Re: Shape Layers - grow stroke along path? by Paula Lavalle on May 22, 2012 at 7:47:47 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I found this super helpful video on how to add an object that follows a growing stroke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DJB8LHjQCg&feature=channel&list=UL Unfortunately you'll have to ditch your shape layer and use the Stroke effect as mention


	Re: Wiggly/wobbly effect by John Cuevas on May 22, 2012 at 5:44:21 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum One method would be to create your text then go to Layer -> Create Shapes from Text. Then open up the shape layer and "Add" -> Wiggle Paths


	wiggling paths consistently along their length by Nick Hill on May 22, 2012 at 4:55:39 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum With Wiggle Paths on a shape layer, is there any way to make the wiggle consistent if the path points aren't evenly spaced? What seems to happen is that the closer the vertices get, the tighter the wiggles become, and there doesn't seem to be an obvi


	Tracking line annotations to footage by Louis Eguchi on May 18, 2012 at 10:35:47 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I have some footage of some smart phones demonstrating some software. i want to anotate the footage. i want to have the annotations were one end of the line 'sticks' to a tracked point. i have managed to do this. i want to then make the other


	setting a range by Jamil Yamani on May 17, 2012 at 1:56:21 pm in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum hi all i have been using some code to sample some audio and it has been working fine up until now. i am using a slider value to drive a position on a transform:Repeater1 on a Shape layer, please see code below the values should read between


	Re: Looping Animated dotted line by Kevin Camp on May 11, 2012 at 4:57:55 pm in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum there are a few ways... an easy way, if the dots don't need to move is to use the write-on effect, animate the brush position as needed and then play with the brush size and spacing properties to get a dotted line that 'writes-on'. if the dots


	Text with silhouettes/stencils by Cassidy Clawson on May 11, 2012 at 7:51:13 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Hello all, I am trying to accomplish a relatively simple effect: static text is revealed as a colored rectangle slides over it. This is very easy to accomplish by setting the text layer on top of the shape layer, making the text white and setting


	Re: Expression to make a boat "ride" on top of generated waves? by Dan Fredley on May 11, 2012 at 1:13:56 am in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum just noticed you have a shape layer. You'll need to precomp the shape layer with the slider or use a solid instead


	Change the Color of Multiple Layers With Change to Color Effect by Dorian Heller on May 10, 2012 at 8:22:56 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hello, I am trying to change the value of many shape layers based on one adjustment layer which controls the main colors and a hue/saturation/lightness expression. Here's what I am working with: Adjustment layer: Color A on Shape layer A i


	Re: Convert shape layer shapes like ellipse, rectangle, etc. to shapes with editable masks by leif falk on May 5, 2012 at 11:13:10 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Wow, that is really interesting, I ask myself if more than five per cent of every AE users know that. Not even the courser changes when you hold the alt key. There is no menu to choose that option manually. But it really works. Thanks for your reply


	Re: Convert shape layer shapes like ellipse, rectangle, etc. to shapes with editable masks by Brian Charles on May 5, 2012 at 4:53:51 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum If you are referring to shape layers, when you first draw the path hold down the option/alt key, You can then morph the path by selecting any point with the pen tools and the convert vertex tool.


	Convert shape layer shapes like ellipse, rectangle, etc. to shapes with editable masks by leif falk on May 5, 2012 at 10:55:49 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi everybody Does anybody know if it is possible to convert a shape of an ellipse or rectangle for example to a shape with a editable path? Of course there is the auto trace solution, but it is not always accurate and it converts the whole layer,


	Re: Stroke effect no longer visible below 1.0 by Roland R. Kahlenberg on May 1, 2012 at 1:58:21 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Use a Shape Layer. In fact, whenever you want to use the Stroke effect, I strongly suggest that you instead use a Shape Layer which has the added benefit of being vector-driven. This comes in handy should you want to scale up your paths. You will als


	Re: Any way to achieve 9-slice scaling on a shape layer? by Walter Soyka on Apr 30, 2012 at 9:18:46 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Not that I'm aware of. You could sort of build your own by moving the anchor points for individual layers, then linking their scales together with a slider control and expressions.


	Any way to achieve 9-slice scaling on a shape layer? by Ryan Paterson on Apr 30, 2012 at 7:25:57 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Seems a bit ridiuculous that there's no in-built way to accomplish this. Does anyone know of a hack/plugin/script that will do it?


	Re: Custom layer shape properties transfer to mask by Ed Romero on Apr 29, 2012 at 10:20:34 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Thank you! I had tried a track matte but it wasn't working. When you suggested track matte, I tried again and found I couldn't see the contents inside the shape layer because the gradient fill was low. Raised gradient fill to 100% and it worke


	Re: Custom layer shape properties transfer to mask by John Cuevas on Apr 29, 2012 at 4:24:07 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Also, if you just need your shape layer to be a mask, you could just put it above the layer you want to mask and change the bottom layers track matte to alpha matte.


	Re: Custom layer shape properties transfer to mask by John Cuevas on Apr 29, 2012 at 3:39:24 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Select the shape layer, then on the menu bar Layer -> Auto-trace.


	Custom layer shape properties transfer to mask by Ed Romero on Apr 28, 2012 at 11:50:44 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum How can I add the shape properties to a mask on a solid? I'd like an identical shape as a mask instead of a shape layer. Best way to do this? Thanks.


	AE5 how to restrain stroke expression within a shape? by charlton rom on Apr 24, 2012 at 6:47:06 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum I'm working on a banner anim for a TV shop website. Size is 570 x 82. It's a 10-second anim I plan to reel/repeat. I have 4 text layers, all the same text, with some basic color, glows, and opacity shifts. All good here. On text layer 4 I adde


	Re: Stretched glow on 32 bpc by Tylor Larson on Apr 23, 2012 at 9:41:26 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum the comp is a square pixel 1920x1080 29.97. the circle is a Shape layer with a white fill... which might explain the white ramp...oh... And the glow is based on the alpha channel... radius is 138 and intensity is 9.6. TY


	Stretched glow on 32 bpc by Tylor Larson on Apr 23, 2012 at 9:17:49 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum i was just playing around in AE and ran into a serious issue. i made a simple shape layer that is a circle. I then applied a Glow affect and change the BPC to 32 floating. and now the glow is in a oval shape and not circular. Can some one explain to


	Re: Mask shape in Photoshop 5 by Erik Waluska on Apr 22, 2012 at 4:22:51 pm in the Adobe Photoshop basics Forum You can do this easily by creating the mask shape and Ctrl or Cmd clicking the layer's thumbnail in the layer panel to make a selection or if it's a shape layer you're using then Ctrl or Cmd click the vector mask thumbnail to make a selection. In any


	Re: Possible to have custom shapes move along a path a la "vegas"? by Dave LaRonde on Apr 18, 2012 at 6:20:09 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Make a comp-sized solid. Use the various mask tools to make a mask to define your motion path. Copy the mask, select a shape, and then paste into the shape's POSITION property. You'll get a 2-second animation of the path, whose timing you can adju


	Re: how to create feather around text in CS4 by Samya Chattopadhyay on Apr 12, 2012 at 4:47:46 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum A big hello and thanks... Yes you are right...I am a newbie to AECS4. I tried a bit different. Instead of creating the mask, I duplicated the text layer, then created a shape from that text and then applied Fast blur. Last, I took the text lay


	anchor opposite ends of a 3D line to different shape layer by Stacey Stormes on Apr 10, 2012 at 7:27:56 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi. I have an animation with multiple circles moving around in 3D space with lines connecting them. I want to attach each line to 2 circle layers, anchoring each end of the line to a different circle layer so when I move the circle layers around th


	Re: Stars by John Cuevas on Apr 5, 2012 at 3:38:29 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Couple of ways changing the shape star_points. When you create the star just use the up and down arror to change the number of points. You can also change the number of points by twirling down into the Star Shape Layer -> Polystar -> Polystar Path


	Re: Dan Ebberts Bezier Curve by Declan Smith on Apr 3, 2012 at 9:42:15 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi, If I understand what you are looking for is a way to get a shape layer follow a perfect circular path and auto orient ? I have uploaded a project that may help. 3942_orientobjectaroundcirclularpath.aep.zip Hope this is of use.


	Dan Ebberts Bezier Curve by adam hill on Apr 3, 2012 at 8:14:43 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Is it possible to take Dan Ebberts Bezier Curve and have the path be a perfect circle? and also orient the shape layer to the circle? right now i have it on a slider with 4 nulls. N1 = thisComp.layer("Null 1"); N2 = thisComp.layer("Null 2");


	Animate Shape path by Matthew Beall on Apr 3, 2012 at 2:47:24 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Can you animate the path of a shape layer? I want it to draw on, but I don't see that option.. I have to create mask splines and use the stroke effect, which is twice the work..


	Re: Growing lines in 3D Space... 3D Stroke needed? by Declan Smith on Apr 3, 2012 at 8:20:51 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum One approach would be to use a shape layer to create an arc, add dashes (1) , tweek to suit then animate the offset (2) to get the dashes to move (like marching ants). Then click add (3) while still in the shape layer, and add a trim paths and anim


	Re: Creating Special Shapes In After Effects by Kurt Ingamells on Apr 2, 2012 at 9:41:18 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Thankyou Dan, your advice worked like a treat :) I had to create a shape layer which filled the composition, added the corner pin effect and pick-whipped the lower left corner to the upper left one to turn it into a triangle then from there on I can


	Link Text width to Mask Shape by Stefan Koler on Mar 29, 2012 at 1:59:53 pm in the Apple Motion Forum Hey there, I'm trying to create template in which a mask changes if text is changed (gets shorter or longer). So I created a shape layer wit a mask and a text layer. I applied the "link" (I guess that's what its called in the english version)


	Re: PreComp Tears Apart in 3D Move by Dave LaRonde on Mar 23, 2012 at 6:43:50 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum From your description of the problem, it would appear you're doing something that you shouldn't be doing. Here's a quote from AE's online help on the topic: "Note: Don’t animate the position or scale of a continuously rasterized layer with layer


	Re: Filling shape with another layer by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu on Mar 22, 2012 at 8:22:20 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Use the shape layer as a track matte for the fill layer. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7cf9a.html http://library.creativecow.net/articles/laronde_dave/dissolving_grid.php http://www.youtube.com/wa


	Re: Animating arrows with growing "tails" by Jeff Hinkle on Mar 21, 2012 at 8:56:12 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum No doubt someone else will suggest a more elegant solution, but try this: Create a new comp-sized solid. Create a curved mask path in the shape you want your arrow to travel. Apply the Stroke effect and keyframe the End parameter to the speed you


	Re: Reveal with hard edge? by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Mar 20, 2012 at 2:19:27 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Once you have a Shape Layer, you can add the Trim Paths, Shape Operation, which works just like Stroke - it has Start and End properties that draw on/off paths. The trick is to get your design into a Shape Layer. FWIW, if you're in PS or AI, you c


	Re: Reveal with hard edge? by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:55:47 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Shape Layers are the way to go for hard-edged stuff. The tricky part is that you either start drawing the SHape Layers manually for each character or start off with Text Layers, which can be converted to Shape Layers (see Layer Menu for appropriate


	Re: Particular Compositing by Walter Soyka on Mar 14, 2012 at 1:09:31 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum You want to use your shape layer as an obscuration layer (Particular > Visibility > Obscuration Layer).


	anchorpoint vs. position trouble with beam effect by Omar Hashem on Mar 14, 2012 at 1:10:23 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Alright so it seems simple, but i'm new at this, and im having trouble with using the beam effect with another layer. I have the start point of the beam at a stationary point, and the other parented to the position of a shape layer. Now i would like


	Link rotation to two different slider controls by Lasse Gjertsen on Mar 12, 2012 at 4:57:10 pm in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum I'm pretty new to expressions, but it has surely opened a bunch of doors! I'm rigging a face for animation. I've got two groups under one shape layer named "Eyebrows": "Eyebrow L" and "Eyebrow R". I've linked each eyebrow's position and rotatio


	Re: Uneditable gradient stroke/fill outside of a shape group by Paul Roper on Mar 8, 2012 at 6:50:30 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum They do magically disappear and reappear. If you're interested, try this: Create a shape layer, say a rectangle. You will get "Shape Layer 1", containing "Contents", containing "Rectangle 1" containing "Rectangle Path 1, Stroke 1, Gradient Fill 1


	Re: Uneditable gradient stroke/fill outside of a shape group by David Ghast on Mar 7, 2012 at 11:07:30 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Um, they dont magically reappear, the gradient/fill settings are stored with the shape, not the group (shape layer).

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	adobe after effects podcast An Introduction to Shape Layers In this Podcast Tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to Shape Layers, one of the most powerful features in Adobe After Effects CS3.


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