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Create nulls from paths

Create nulls from paths - After Effects Tutorial

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Create nulls from paths

- [Instructor] Now here's a feature that will lead to innovative new uses of masks and paths. Expressions can now link to path points and tangents. Since many of you probably tuned out as soon as you heard me say the word expression, fear not. A new built-in script rigs this up for you automatically, and that is the sole focus of this lesson. The script in question lives under the window menu. Down here at the bottom are actually two new scripts. We'll get into VR Comp Editor in the next chapter, but here we're going to use create nulls from paths. Now this is the first time that you've ever run a script in After Effects. You may see a warning saying that the script requires to write files. If that's the case, click okay, and that will open preferences general. Now go up to allow scripts to write files and access network, and enable that. Click okay, and your panel will work as designed. Now this popped right into the same panel group as my effect controls, because when I working with…

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