Path to Motion Path issue

[mattb2461688]

I have copied and pasted a path from one layer to another in which I'd like to animate a circle along. When pasted into the circle layer, the keyframes are so far apart they extend outside of my Comps timeline. Is there a way to shorten this by default? Why is it doing this?

[Dave_LaRonde · Accepted solution]

If you're pasting from a Mask Path to a Motion Path -- which you can do, but which is not at all certain from your description -- you should know that the Position keyframes resulting from pasting in the Mask Path default to 2 seconds in duration.  If your comp is shorter than 2 seconds, just make it longer.

If you're doing something else, you got a lot more 'splainin' to do, Lucy!

[mattb2461688]

Thanks Dave, yep my clip was less than two seconds.

And this wasn't a mask path just a shape path.

[Dave_LaRonde]

Yeah, you can use a shape path, but you really have to guess at where the motion path will end up -- the size of a shape layer is independent from the size of a comp, so the vertex coordinates will be off.

If you make a mask on a piece comp-sized footage, you can paste it in to another layer's position property and know exactly what the motion path will be.