After Effects Rounded Rectangles turning into ellipses

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December 10, 2018
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Hi, I'm trying to create a rectangle with rounded ends to make a lozenge shape. I've opened a shape layer and added a rectangle. I'm then trying to use the roundness property to create a radius at the corner. I've seen this in a tutorial and am trying to follow the steps. However, instead of a nice circular radius in the corners I get an elliptical one that as I increase the value turns the rectangle into an ellipse. Is there a setting I'm missing?

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Correct answer paulk82501677

Thanks everyone. I've discovered my error - it was pointed out to me by the tutorial author in another place. When I added the rectangle I had simply dragged the sides out to the shape I wanted on the screen. This essentially scaled one side of a square instead of producing a rectangle. Hence when I added roundness it formed and ellipse as it became a circle scaled in one dimension. By using the size property, unlinking the x and y properties, then increasing one of them I got my rectangle which when I adjusted the roundness it produced the desired results.

Roland, your way works too, but I couldn't understand why the add rectangle didn't seem to work for me.

paulk82501677AuthorCorrect answer

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Thanks everyone. I've discovered my error - it was pointed out to me by the tutorial author in another place. When I added the rectangle I had simply dragged the sides out to the shape I wanted on the screen. This essentially scaled one side of a square instead of producing a rectangle. Hence when I added roundness it formed and ellipse as it became a circle scaled in one dimension. By using the size property, unlinking the x and y properties, then increasing one of them I got my rectangle which when I adjusted the roundness it produced the desired results.

Roland, your way works too, but I couldn't understand why the add rectangle didn't seem to work for me.

OussK

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really it's very easy to do this in AE, you can follow this few steps

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Ekaterina24204321olfc

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thanks :***

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Rick Gerard

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There is a very high likelihood that you are working in a comp that is using nonsquare pixels. Check the composition settings.

Roland Kahlenberg

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If you drew a Parametric Rectangle, you should have a Roundness property - even at large values, you shouldn't obtain an ellipse.

Perhaps you added the Round Corners Shape Operator and with this you will end up with an ellipse (when starting with a rectangle) when Radius is set to a high value.

HTH

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