• Adobe After Effects

  Can’t add stroke to Mocha shape layer

  Posted by Renato Soares on October 1, 2018 at 10:50 pm

  So, I generated a layer tracking on mocha ae and imported into AE, applied to my layer and everything is fine. However when I try to add a stroke (generate>stroke) the stroke simply does not appear.
  I guess it’s because it’s not a Mask per say, but that’s the only way I found on to copy the paths from mocha.

  

  Ross Shain replied 7 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Renato Soares

  October 1, 2018 at 10:57 pm

  I just noticed on a youtube tutorial that when they paste the shape data it turns into a Mask not a Layer like mine. I tried to paste it into a solid or even inside a mask but didnt work
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  Ross Shain

  October 2, 2018 at 7:08 pm

  If you want to apply effects such as stroke to a Mocha generated roto shape, you need to “paste as an AE mask”.

  If you are running Mocha AE and have a roto shape on the clipboard, you will see 2 different paste options under edit menu:
  Paste (pastes Mocha as Mocha shape plug-in – good for variable edge feathering)
  Paste AE Mask – converts Mocha shape to AE mask

  Ross Shain
  Boris FX / Imagineer Systems
  https://borisfx.com/products/mocha/

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