6 Secret Stroke Tricks in After Effects

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Learn 6 things you may not have know you could do with strokes on shape layers in Adobe After Effects.

In this video:
0:06 Tip #1: Maintain Stroke Weight
1:21 Tip #2: Align Stroke to Inside or Outside
1:45 Tip #3: Multiple Strokes
2:20 Tip #4: Dotted Line
2:44 Tip #5: Tube Stroke
3:25 Tip #6: Outline Layer or Comp

Expression used in tip #1 to maintain the stroke weight even when the layer is parented:
try{
s = scale[0]/100;
L = thisLayer;
while(L.hasParent){
s*=L.parent.scale[0]/100;
L=L.parent;
}
w=value;
w/s
}catch(e){
Value;
};

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