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Motion Path from LiveTrace
Ok, say i had a piece of line art (say a simple bubble tag (graffiti)) and LiveTraced it, and then i wanted to import the outer path into AE7 to use as a motion path for a light (so that particles from particular 1.5 will follow it). Is this at all possible?
If so, how will AE know where the start and end points will be for the path?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Matt Strang(E)
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Not in fron of AE, but if you select the mask in the comp window, and then select a mask point, you can choose Layer > Mask > Set first Vertex.
I think you can do the same by right clicking on the mask point as well and choosing that option from the pop-up.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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Thanks for your reply Aharon… i’ve watched alot of your tutorials… much appreciated work my friend.
“Not in fron of AE”… what do you mean?
But a LiveTrace path is usable as a motion path, this is very good to know
-Matt Strang(E)
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on vacation on a computer that doesn’t have AE installed. Just checking email and responding to posts…
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com—————————————-
Click the link below to subscribe to the Creative Cow After Effects Podcast, and get free AE video tutorials:https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=111087911
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On vacation and still responding to posts?!?!
you’re a trooper man… much appreciated…
now go get a drink with an umbrella in it!!
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You could also trace the layer directly in After Effects using the Layer/Auto-trace command, I’ve had some surprizingly good results recently, don’t know how they’d compete with Live Trace though.
Glennser
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Just as an update to anyone who read this…
The motion path is quite temperamental when trying to use a path from a live trace. the path that you try to copy into AE must be a single closed path, there can be no open spaces in any of the lettering E.G. the center of an “A.”
what i have found to be much easier is to find a font that you like and create outlines in Illustrator (type>create outlines) for each letter and copy each path individually into AE. however, you may still run into problems with things like A’s and B’s as they have second paths in their centers.
Thanks for the help to those who responded… and if anyone else has any other tips on the matter, you input is always appreciated.
-Matt Strang(E)
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DOn;t waste your time creating outlines in AI just to bring them into AE. You can do the same thing to text layers in AE:
I’m not in front of a computer with AE at the moment, but to give you a rough idea (forgive the lack of exact phrasing), select the text layer and choose: Layer > Convert Text To Outlines.
I did a recent podcast that covered this – it was called the scribble effect (part 1)
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com—————————————-
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