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Align Stroke in After Effects

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September 21, 2013
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Shape Layes has almost everything that Illustrator has, except for the abilty to align the stroke to Inside, Outside or Center. Is there a way to do this?

I want this but in After Effects!

How to

Correct answer Gabe Valente

in the shape layer, click on the "Add" button, and chose "Offset Paths"

You can manually alter the offset value, or if you'd like to automate an inner stroke or outer stroke, just pick-whip the offset amount to the stroke width, then, divide by 2, or -2.

An inner stroke would look something like this:

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inegar

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the best way to have an inner stroke is:

1- pre-compose your shape layer(with move all attributes option)

2- Add fill effects

3- with the new composition selected, choose auto trace from the layers menu

4- choose alpha and press OK

5- Apply stroke effect to layer with the setting mentioned below:

- brush hardness 100%

- All masks - checked

- stroke seq... - unchecked

- paint style - reveal....

All that's all and now you can increase brush size in the inner stroke.

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zakkkaye17680571

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Okay I have figured out how to add expression and I have done exactly what you said but not working.

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Jayrajsinhprmr

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Thank you It's realy working

sagorsur

Participant

Thanks a lot! It's working...

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MariusMaties

Participant

You can drag fill above stroke.. see below.

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Bryanimated

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This works great for an outer stroke, when and if your fill is 100% opaque.

Gabe ValenteCorrect answer

Inspiring

in the shape layer, click on the "Add" button, and chose "Offset Paths"

You can manually alter the offset value, or if you'd like to automate an inner stroke or outer stroke, just pick-whip the offset amount to the stroke width, then, divide by 2, or -2.

An inner stroke would look something like this:

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L3rn3r

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Thank you. This helped me.

Gabe Valente

Inspiring

yay! glad I could help!

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maboy

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the only way I found to go around this was to paste the Illustrator path while selecting the "path" option in the Shape Layer. then make the stroke width double of what you need, and then, select Shape Layer (not Path option), to create a mask, changing the blending mode to SUBTRACT, and there you go.

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Noahcampeau

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Im also having the exact same problem