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December 26, 2022
Question

Can't edit the path

  • December 26, 2022
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Hello everyone!

I have problem with editing certain paths. The image was made in Illustrator and the imported in After Effects. It's a bow on the gift box - it jumps with the box and bottom parts are moving up and down, two loops of the bow don't move (I didn't edid them). In some moment something happened and I can't edit those 2 bottom parts of path anymore, even if it's selected (path 1 on the screenshot). I only can edit the loops. And when I hover cursor over path's 1 or path's 2 vertex and then click - the new shape layer creates instead of editing the path. It's strange because I've already did what I wanted with those paths but then it stopped to work. I also tried to import this bow to another empty composition - everything works fine. I'll be very glad if someone knows what kind of problem is this! Thank you!

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Mylenium
Legend
December 26, 2022

It would probably make a lot more sense if you applied your fancy expressions after actually fixing your paths in the first place and in addition your Effects Control Window suggests that you have applied three expressions from some script and that alone may cause performance issue or the expressions taking over and getting in the way. This doesn't really make sense and is a bad workflow. For anything else you have to provide more info.

 

Mylenium 

Participant
December 27, 2022

@Mylenium Thank you very much for help! Unfortunately deleting the expressions didn't work and I had to remake that part. But I will pay attention to this in future!