Hi guys and welcome to this new election in this lecture we are going to learn about the path the path
will wipe in shape layers in and out in fact and here what you can see it's a stroke of a shape of a
rectangle that has been wiped in and the same time being wiped out.
Let's see what you can do with that limb path.
I will read these two layers and take the pen tool for example and start drawing a path just a simple
path nothing fancy.
Of course here I would see only the strong because this is the pen tool.
And here you have you have a path that you have drawn.
Now how do you make that path.
How can you put on the screen coming in for that you can use the path less turn down the content of
the Shipler.
And here you have the odd and next to it.
There is an arrow.
If you click on the arrow you have very many options that are quite useful in very many cases.
You are going to learn all of them in this course.
And now we are going to focus only on that path let's choose the path and it's always good to add that
path in the constants don't add then change because it would be inside the shape and it will not affect
any other shape.
So let's look at the path you have start you have three parameters start and an offset five.
Now how does it operate.
Let's grab it through the start to a higher value and you notice that the DOT is being wiped out.
In this case if I use the and you're not is that that bad has been wiped out or so.
But from a different direction and we will have the offset We'll see how it works.
Let's try to make an animation here.
For example if I take that path and put it at 100 percent there will be nothing on the screen.
I can keyframe it and come to one second take it back to zero.
So we're working here with the start on the.
If you play your animation you'll notice that your path is coming from the right side or it's.
And if you want.
This is how start operates.
Now let's remove the start from here and we remove the keyframes and let's work with it and then we'll
work the opposite way.
So if you take it to 0 percent for example you keep re-emitted after one second you take it to 100 percent.
Here are you will see your path being wiped in from the left side or the beginning of the path.
Fine let's do some interesting animation.
First of all we can have the line being open.
That's an underline a square opening for example.
These circles being white in and out.
Of course we are working only on the stroke here and we can include an introduction for a logo like
you've seen to open up the logo in a fancy way and then start doing some animation which start with
the line here.
Ok how to open this line with a click on this composition.
There are few things you need to notice here.
First of all this line is not opened through the scale.
If you open it through the scale the line will be very thin and then go thicker to the size of its stroke
but with the green path it will just open.
Let's do this animation with this liar for example just to make a new one.
We click on the pen tool click in the beginning and then we click the end and you have your line of
course.
You can change the stroke and you change the color.
Let's open the content and in content we want to add a path in the beginning here.
We can use the start to open to close the line.
In fact now or and also on the same way.
But if let's say put them at 50 percent each.
It's pretty easy by the way.
You notice now that the completed completely disappeared because the start has wiped 50 percent and
the end has wiped 50 percent so there is nothing left here.
Let's give frame.
And if we go to one second we move the start to open and remove the and to open also to 0 percent.
Hey do you have a very nice animation.
Of course you can come and play with me.
Is it easy to make it even more interesting.
You can just select the two keyframes here and there we are now into the speed the graph and just make
it for example.
Speedier just like this.
OK.
That's one way to do it.
If you notice now it becomes a bit more interesting.
Girl you can come here and make it more interesting play with the keyframes play the graph and so on.
What's important now is to learn about the start and then let's go to our next call position and this
one will allow us to open a rectangle here.
So of course we're going to use the same.
And we opened the squared composition position here it's opening the square but stopping at a certain
distance.
How can we do that.
Let's read this to Shipley's here.
Draw a rectangle.
Now we are going to draw a perfect square that will be easier.
And position it for example here and that's cool.
Let's add a green path in the content.
And when you open here you see that is offset.
Now the pass start from what we call the first vertex the first Vertex for the player only exists when
the player is a busy in-shape.
This is all explained to you inside the complex shape section nonetheless.
Now we can start working with it.
So at the start we start from the corner and the end of course we're starting from the same corner to
shift this we can offset it for example to 45.
Now if you as the start is going to offset just where we wanted 45 degrees from here not is this is
a square.
That's why the 45 is coming here.
If it were in the 45 might have come you know over here or the different place.
So let's start.
Let's say this one.
Make it 6 percent.
So that is then that's good.
And then this one is 94 percent called we wanted to stop there.
So we come to one second and we keyframe the start and the end.
Let's go to the beginning.
They start to 50 percent.
That will be enough and take that and also to 50 percent and nearly already have it.
It opens and it comes to the limit.
Now this is really cool as animation because you can come to the school on line.
For example I had a mask and as soon as the rectangle is about to close you can just move the mosque.
If I keyframe it here just before it closes and go backward maybe and make the mosque just like this.
So it was a cool animation.
OK the mosque is to be the least make it longer.
Fine.
So you're not as you want to sync them together and that will be quite useful animation.
And this is very much used in introducing headline's lower thirds or whatever your imagination can do
too.
Let's go see what we can do for example with the circles here we have any circle opening.
That's quite nice.
And we know about the dash now we can do this with the impasse.
Let's open the circle and what we have here two circles opening.
There's this to shape layers and create new ones.
And we go to the ellipse click control and shift and open up fine recompress control and the need to
center them and we move it to the middle of the composition.
For example if you'd like to let's introduce a different path here.
I would go to that path.
Now the 4:03 a circle just wide the circle in and out.
By the way if you have a field for example here it will also wipe the field but that is so ugly that
usually it's not used except in very special circumstances.
If you really need it I really don't like it that other wipes in the effects of presets that are much
more interesting.
So let's remove the feel
and you have here the ype coming from the beginning till then fine.
Let's go to 100 percent keyframe and and from the start go to one second for example and get the and
to come over here and we get to start all sort of come over here.
Now of course nothing happens because the values are swiping each other.
But if you select the Stookey frames the lower keyframes of the end or the start you can do that and
move them.
You will see that it will wipe him with the end and it will wipe out with the stock or vice versa.
You can see that image.
Now that's good.
Of course if you choose the last two keyframe and make it speedier give you a different aspect.
Now let's duplicate the shape and now we have two shapes exactly on top of each other.
Let's bless you.
And the second shape for example we press shift as to get the scale and we make it bigger.
So now we have the two ships coming in.
Good.
Then we can take the layer and move it aside.
That's fine.
And take the last keyframes move them and also move these two keyframes on the side.
You see we just play it with the keyframes and you will have something totally different.
Of course you can come to the shape player go to the ellipse go to the stroke of the lips and add some
dashes here.
You add the dashes you add the gap.
Let's see how it's happening.
Fine.
And we make a round cup so we have not only make it small make the gaps bigger.
So now we have a dotted line that is coming in and out.
So what is the principle here.
It's pretty easy but when you're doing lower thirds you're doing titers you're doing motion graphics.
The music is very wide you're not.
Now you are playing with the keyframes.
You can it is then you can move the layers to create even more animations that are pretty interesting.
Let's duplicate this layer again.
And we open the scale of this layer and make it even bigger.
Let's go to the GOP's in the continent.
We'll go to the ellipse and the stroke and find the gaps here the dashes and reduce the garbs for example
or increase the cops call.
So now you have something as.
And of course we can move on there to a different time and they will come up very nicely the way you
want them to come up.
You can download this project and see how I have done this animation here which is multiple squares
and it's a very fancy animation but it's very easy to be done.
And that is how I duplicated the layers and just killing them up and down every layer is killed up.
On the other one and you have the logo that's coming in.
So please download the project here.
It's called Team path and try to see how this is done and try to understand also how you can manipulate
this to make it even much better.
See you in the next lecture.