• Adobe After Effects

  numerical adjustments of paths?

  Posted by Bart Stevens on April 16, 2020 at 4:26 pm

  Curious if anyone knows a technique for numerically adjusting paths?
  I know I can double click and adjust paths proportionally, but it would be nice to adjust scale numerically, or adjust points based on entering pixel values.
  Thanks!

  Bart Stevens replied 6 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  April 16, 2020 at 5:46 pm

  Try the “Create nulls from path” script that’s included with Ae:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-shape-paths-masks.html#CreateNullsfromPathspanel

  This will give you a set of nulls that control each of the points on your path, so you easily access their position parameters, set up a parent to manipulate scale, apply expression, etc.

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  Bart Stevens

  April 16, 2020 at 6:28 pm

  Thanks Walter, that’s a good idea. I just recently discovered that feature… it’s very useful..
  My thoughts are more while working with Illustrator and After Effects. I know Illustrator will allow you to do this for scale and position for points and path shapes. I think I just need to emphasize a workflow where my AE and Illustrator projects synced up in composition/canvas size. That way I can create specific vector paths in Illustrator and copy over. Previously I wouldn’t have my Illustrator and AE projects the same canvas size, and I would need to adjust size in AE, (which gets difficult with multiple paths on multiple layers).
  Thanks again for the feedback….

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