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  • Make a Position Proporty Follow a mask path?

    Posted by David Knag on May 17, 2009 at 12:36 am

    does anyone know how to make a position property follow a mask path?
    im trying to animate some text create a drawing of a building kind of like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o68LAmvI_lU.

    any ideas?

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    Todd Kopriva replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Dan Ebberts

    May 17, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Select the Mask Path property.

    Edit > Copy

    Click the stopwatch for the Position property

    Edit > Paste

    Dan

  • Todd Kopriva

    May 17, 2009 at 2:16 am

    Here’s a page that gives a few more details than Dan’s terse (and, of course, correct) answer:

    “Create a motion path from a mask, shape, or paint path”

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