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Mask/Path does not start at start (but on the leftmost point)

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Mask/Path does not start at start (but on the leftmost point)
by tzi2k4 on Sep 13, 2007 at 9:10:56 am

Hi!

I tried the tutorial on http://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/graffiti/index.htm and then to extend it by using the stroke effect for some kind of "Indiana Jones map effect".

I have a map of Ireland and I start in Dublin. So I started to create a set of bezier curves like in the tutorial to cover the way we traveled. We started in the east. Then we went south, south west, then up to the north and back to Dublin (east). So far so good :-) I animated the "mask" (path) like in the tutorial but the path starts to appear in the west - not in the east where I began! Is there some way to tell AE to start at the first created point of the path/mask and not somewhere else?

TIA!

Thomas



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Re: Mask/Path does not start at start (but on the leftmost point)
by Todd Kopriva on Sep 13, 2007 at 1:34:09 pm

If I'm picturing what's happening correctly, this section of After Effects Help might help: " Designate the first vertex for a Bezier path"

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Re: Mask/Path does not start at start (but on the leftmost point)
by Darby Edelen on Sep 13, 2007 at 3:33:23 pm

Select the vertex on the path you want to be first, right click it and select Mask>Set First Vertex.

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA

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