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  • How to create this “drawing on screen effect”?

    Posted by Ian Howell on April 7, 2013 at 6:57 pm

    I have been searching for a while, but I have not seen a way to easily create this effect of drawing on the screen:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EuTA4jlpWA
    about 37 seconds in

    I know that I could manually take the pen tool to trace out the path given, but I wanted it to be more automated, by using the motion tracking points. Any ideas?

    Ian Howell replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    April 8, 2013 at 1:21 am

    I don’t think that you’d save yourself any time by not just drawing this manually.

    That said, you can copy and paste motion path data into a path shape if you really want to do it the other way:
    “Create a mask or shape from a motion path”

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  • Ian Howell

    April 9, 2013 at 12:16 am

    Alright, thank you for the link, it proved very useful to what i wanted to do.

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