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brettrae
brettrae
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January 30, 2017
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Trim Paths Causing Weird Effects

  • January 30, 2017
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I imported an outline of the United States from Illustrator into After Effects CC 2017 and am trying to make it appear that it is being drawn on. I right-clicked the imported AI layer and clicked "Create Shape From Vector Layer". Next, I went into the shape layer and added the Trim Paths effect to it. When I try to change the End Percentage, with the intent to establish keyframes from 0% to 100%, making it look like the shape is being drawn onto the page. However, when I do this, I'm getting weird fills that show up, and the stroke outline isn't being drawn on like I was hoping. I just want the outline to be drawn on, with no fill. Here is an example of what it's doing:

Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong? Thank you so much!

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Correct answer Roei Tzoref

Trim paths works efficiently on strokes with no fill. the only way to get your Ai strokes as strokes and no fill is to make sure that in Ai you set your stroke width to uniform and brush size to basic.

if one of these two is different, you will get a fill outline instead of a stroke.

if this still does not work, show as a full screenshot of your Ae interface including your shape contents setup so we can see what exactly is wrong here.

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mgracea
Participant
June 15, 2019

I have been experiencing the sam thing YET when I go into illustrator to change the brush, it won't change to basic.

the image is from Adobe stock..

Thanks

Grace

Roei Tzoref
Roei Tzoref
Legend
June 15, 2019
YET when I go into illustrator to change the brush, it won't change to basic.

can you upload the file? or show some screenshots? also - try in the Illustrator​ forum

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mgracea
Participant
June 15, 2019

tried recording y screen but it won't let me upload

ross.page
ross.page
Participant
April 29, 2019

I've been trying to solve this issue for at least 2 years. Thank you!

    brettrae
    brettraeAuthor
    Participant
    January 30, 2017

    Aha! I had an artistic brush stroke applied to the map in the Illustrator file. Changing it to basic solved the problem. Thank you so much!

      Roei Tzoref
      Roei Tzoref
      Legend
      January 30, 2017

      Great! thanks for the feedback.

      Roei Tzoref
      Roei TzorefCorrect answer
      Legend
      January 30, 2017

      Trim paths works efficiently on strokes with no fill. the only way to get your Ai strokes as strokes and no fill is to make sure that in Ai you set your stroke width to uniform and brush size to basic.

      if one of these two is different, you will get a fill outline instead of a stroke.

      if this still does not work, show as a full screenshot of your Ae interface including your shape contents setup so we can see what exactly is wrong here.

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