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  Stroke Effect on Shape Layer Mask Paths from Illustrator

  Posted by Garrett Perkins on December 22, 2016 at 1:52 pm

  Ok so I have some handwritten words in illustrator. I have copied the paths of the words and pasted them onto a shape layer in After Effects. I then apply the stroke effect. It works, but it outlines the mask paths instead of drawing them as singular lines.

  I feel like i fixed this once before, but I can’t remember how. All I want is for it to basically draw the words from the mask paths I’m pasting in, not the outlines of the words.

  I’m sure this is super simple, but I can’t figure out what I’m not doing.

  Thanks for your Help
  Garrett

  Roei Tzoref replied 9 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Roei Tzoref

  December 22, 2016 at 3:50 pm

  the only way to get a path as a stroke and not a fill is to set it to uniform width and basic brush in Ai before you copy paste it or convert to shape
  

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