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Creating motion paths with masks
“1. Select a mask.
2. Copy the mask or path to the clipboard.
3. In the Timeline window, select the destination keyframe property.
4. Paste the mask or path.”
It doesn’t function for me. It’s about other setting that i must change, to work this?
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5 Replies
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In step one, make sure you have selected “Mask Shape”.
Dan
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It works. thanks.
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Hey Dan,
thanks, but how can I do that with multiple mask paths please? So I have a auto traced complex image which I`d like to appear as a stroke effect with a connected layer at the actual stroke position (so the endposition of the stroke). When I copy / pase multiple mask paths to the position of my layer I just get masks copied without any path…
Thank you very much
Cheers,
Dom
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I think you’d need to use a script for that. What should happen between two masks?
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Hey Dan,
when I copy mask shape by mask shape into the position of the path (motion path end is the motion path start from the next mask shape) the following layer the center jums from one start shape ancor to the next. What I dont understand is why Adobe left thi function out which CS6 had, so we could simply copy more than just one mask shape to a position. This was definately possible back in the days. So I wonder how to do that now…
Maybe you know how to stack masks (timing based) one after another on the timeline? that could help enormous. I guess that the problem simply is that AE dont know how to handle those mask shapes (that actually lay on the same frame) because when I copy the path and paste it, jump to the end of the resulting motion path and then copy/paste the next mask path into it gives me both motion paths arranged after each other…
Thanks for your help!
Cheers Dom
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