• Adobe After Effects

  Make a Position Proporty Follow a mask path?

  Posted by David Knag on May 17, 2009 at 12:36 am

  does anyone know how to make a position property follow a mask path?
  im trying to animate some text create a drawing of a building kind of like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o68LAmvI_lU.

  any ideas?

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  Todd Kopriva replied 17 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  May 17, 2009 at 2:01 am

  Select the Mask Path property.

  Edit > Copy

  Click the stopwatch for the Position property

  Edit > Paste

  Dan
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  Todd Kopriva

  May 17, 2009 at 2:16 am

  Here’s a page that gives a few more details than Dan’s terse (and, of course, correct) answer:

  “Create a motion path from a mask, shape, or paint path”

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