After Effects and auto trace makes my logo white

[Donovan_]

I used After Effects now for the first time and I wanted to animate a logo. I read and saw in a video, that I should use auto trace for "recognizing" the logo itself, to animate the edges. But if I do this, my logo goes white and I also can´t change the mode, cause "Vegas" won´t work that well after it 😞

So what can I do?

[Roland Kahlenberg]

Autotrace may inadvertently create more masks than is required. You will have to look at each mask, on its own, to be able to decide if you actually need it. You'll have to set the Mask Mode for all other masks to None while you check on each mask.
HTH

[Donovan_]

If I put the mask to None, the "Vegas" effect (red light) disappears, but after it, everything is like it should be. If I leave it on (the mask), we can see the red light, but the letter turns white if the auto trace is coming up -> example "T" and "HE"...

[OussK]

the cropped screenshots didn't help that much, try to post full screen explain what you do exactly and what effect you apply for each layer, and show us the logo before and after the trace.

[Donovan_]

Sorry for these cropped screenshots, so here are screenshots before and after the auto trace and as we can see, my logo glows with auto trace at the beginning red (picture 1) and the auto trace recognize my logo, but turns it into a white logo (picture 2 and 3) - my logo is now white instead of black. On picture 4 I turned the auto trace off (eye-symbol off) and now there are only the colorful edges of my logo and indeed - it is now how it should be (picture 5) , BUT at the beginning the red lights and actually my complete log is gone (picture 6). I also tried the different modes for the auto trace, but it won´t look that nice as in picture 5...

Already thank you for everyone and every help...

[Donovan_]

And these are the effects that I´ve used (first for the Logo Placeholder - Light and the second for the Vegas)...