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Participating Frequently
June 15, 2011
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Rounded Rectangle ..Corner Radius???

  • June 15, 2011
  • 4 replies
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How do you control the corner radius of a rounded rectangle box?

Correct answer JollyPiedPiper

If making a mask, roll the mouse wheel forward or backwards (depending on the size you need) before letting go of the right button that you are pushing down to drag it out. Congratulations, you have become as coordinated as an octopus. Your middle finger is now useful for two things instead of one.

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Participant
October 26, 2025

You will find the Roundness option at the shape properties panel, you can adjust the corner radius from there for the rounded rectangle. 

JollyPiedPiperCorrect answer
Participant
August 25, 2021

If making a mask, roll the mouse wheel forward or backwards (depending on the size you need) before letting go of the right button that you are pushing down to drag it out. Congratulations, you have become as coordinated as an octopus. Your middle finger is now useful for two things instead of one.

Participant
October 10, 2021

Brilliant reply, answered the question with no pretentious bs and got me laughing on an adobe help forum somehow.

have a nice one

April 20, 2021

wow

 

 

Community Expert
June 15, 2011

Look in the timeline under the shape layer contents. It's called roundness and it's in pixels.

Participating Frequently
June 16, 2011

Sorry should have been more clear... in a mask.

Community Expert
September 22, 2017

I'm not getting the "Roundedness" option on my mask (screen-shot attached)

Mac

After Effects CC up-to-date


Masks are vector paths not parametric shapes so there is no corner radius you can adjust. You cal select all mask points and then press Ctrl/Cmnd + t to bring up Mask Transform, hold down the Ctrl/Cmnd key or Shift + Ctrl/Cmnd and resize the mask around it's geometric center and then use mask expansion to generate symmetrical round corners. The Mask path will still be square but expanding the mask with Mask Expansion will give you a radius on the corners. The amount of expansion is equal to the radius. In this case I have created a mask with a 78 pixel corner radius.

Another option would be to use a shape layer and the rectangle tool, adjust the size of the parametric shape using the tools shown in my first reply to this thread, then use the Shape layer as a Track Matte to create a mask or right click on the Rectangle Path and select convert to Bezier, set a keyframe to make sure you have the path selected, then copy. On the layer where you want the mask select the mask tool (g), click anywhere and paste.