• Adobe After Effects

  Working with Paths copied from Illustrator – I’m Lost!

  Posted by Mike Lamezec on August 27, 2010 at 10:59 pm

  So I have some paths in Illustrator that I’d like to import into After Effects to add a stroke to and do a “Trim Paths” effect to to animate it. I can paste the path into After Effects no problem, but no matter what I do I can’t get any stroke to outline the path.

  When i paste the paths onto a new solid it just makes a mask, and when I paste it onto a shapes layer it just gives me the paths but It wont let me add stroke or even a fill. Any solution for this? I’m sure its a step i’m missing but I can’t figure it out.

  Thanks.

  Glen Tuggy replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Haik Katsikian

  August 28, 2010 at 6:39 pm

  Hi Mike,

  In your solid layer, are you adding the stroke and fill using the layer paths?
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  Glen Tuggy

  April 4, 2013 at 2:39 am

  I’m having a similar problem. I have a shape layer which I’ve drawn some paths and copied & pasted others. On the paths I drew when I add fill & stroke it adds them below to all the paths, instead of to the one I have selected. So I can’t have different fills on these. However the paths I copied from another layer have their own different fills. So what is going on?

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