Stroke Effect


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Stroke Effect
by Max Montgomery on May 1, 2008 at 12:04:35 am

I know questions about how to use the stroke effect have been beaten to death on here but this is a little bit different from the others. I have a curved line on a very large comp (2500x2500) that is 150px wide. It is the a similar shape to an "S". I was planning on animating the "growth" of it with the stroke effect but was unaware AE only allows up to a 50px stroke width. Now im drawing blanks on how to "grow" this line. Any ideas? I am working with AE CS3. Thanks.

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Re: Stroke Effect
by Jeremy Fabiano on May 1, 2008 at 12:13:53 pm

I *want* to say precomp it and play with the scale.. that *MIGHT* work - but part of me doubts it since I've never played with the stroke on there.

If this helps awesome - if not I hope someone else will say something more intelligent than what I did hehehe

-Jeremy

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Re: Stroke Effect
by Ben Lindsey on May 6, 2008 at 12:15:57 pm

Well, I'm a student learning AE like crazy and I've been playing with this effect more and more at my job and got it down packed. Well the way I do this is by making extra masks on the layer instead of one guideline(mask). So spread the masks evenly were they are touching each other and so it gets both sides of the layer. You also have to make each into separate layers because AE CS3 wont allow extra stroke effects. But just add more masks the larger the object. Have fun!

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