[Danny Winn]

Yeah, I should have known better, it works thanks Jon.

[Danny Winn]

Hey thanks for the responses Steve, they all worked great!. I still don’t know what happend with the “M” key changing cause I’ve only had AE CS4 but for anyone reading this, “Mask Path” is apparently the same as the old “Mask Shape”.

Thanks again Steve, I’m sure you’ll be able to help this old newbie in the future too. Hehe

DW

[Danny Winn]

Hmmm? Strange.

I got to this point by watching the “Light Saber” Tutorial by Andrew Kramer (Link Below) where at 1:14 in the video he says and hits the letter “M” and then the “Mask Shape” option comes up with a stopwatch. By the way I AM talking about after using the pen tool on a new layer solid. It had been doing it for 4 days for me but then yesterday it started with the “Mask Path” for reasons I don’t understand. Could it have been a automatic update that changed it? Cause I wouldn’t know how to change the Keyboard commands if I tried. Hehe.

BTW, my timeline slider doesn’t seem to be moving the video anymore manually other than if I click one frame at a time while holding it.

Any Ideas???

Tutorial Link (Watch and listen at 1:14 in)
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/light_sabers/

[Danny Winn]

Hmmm? The Linear switch DID do the job for my richochet effect and the footage split also worked for the motion blur problem but I still cant get the ball to gradually get smaller even with the 3d mode selected.

I also couldn’t get the ball to the back wall while the 3D tool was selected because it was making the ball to small to fast if that makes sense, so I tried messing with the scale level again with 3D selected but again it made the ball too small again.

I’ll bet there’s an easy way to simply tell the program to start at 100% and gradually go to 20% by the time you reach the next keyframe at the back wall.

I also couldn’t find the Disable mask option.

Thanks so much, any other suggestions would be welcomed.