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Why is "set first vertex" grayed out?

May 27, 2012 7:55 AM

I'm new to After Effects and am rather boggled by its complexity. I have searched this question and didn't find it in the forum.

 

I created a path in Illustrator and pasted it into the position property of a shape object. The path works just as I wanted it to as a motion path. However, the default first vertex was not where I wanted it, so I selected the one I wanted to set as the first vertex, but the switch to do so was grayed out. I did have only one vertex selected.

 

Does anyone have a solution or an explanation?

 

I'm using a Macbook Pro with a dual core chip and 8GB of RAM, AE CS5, OS X 10.6.8.

 

Thanks

472 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: Mylenium, May 28, 2012 2:50 AM
 
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    1. Mylenium,
    May 27, 2012 8:12 AM   in reply to Tony B55
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    Once a pathe has been converted to motion, you re-arrange the keyframe order to chenge thae staring point of the motion.

     

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    2. Tony B55,
    May 27, 2012 8:23 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    That's how I solved the problem, by reordering keyframes, and it works as planned. I was wondering if the graying out of the swiwtch has to do with imported paths.

     

    If I may ask pose a different but related problem here, when I draw paths (not as masks but as shape layers) in AE, copy and then paste them into a property such as position, I get a new layer and not a motion path. I do have the shape path selected in the timeline, but still get a new layer. Pasting in an open path made in Illustrator works in the same comp, however.

     

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    3. Mylenium,
    May 28, 2012 2:50 AM   in reply to Tony B55
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    This should work just the same regardless of the source of the path. You may just be selecting a wrong property level, so the data is not properly formatted and that may mess things up...

     

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