Welcome back Fablers. In this video, we're going to talk about the Trim Path effect. In the big picture, the trim path allows you to basically animate the start and an offset of any path or shaping your scene. It allows for the shape, the stroke, or both of them to be drawn onto the screen. The trim path can be found underneath the shape folder within the effects library.
Once you've dragged and dropped it on top of your layer, again, this is a caveat here. The trim path is another one of those effects where you cannot drag it directly onto the scene. It has to go directly onto the object with the shape that you wish to effect. It cannot be applied as a global effect.
Once you drag and drop it onto your shape, you're presented with three options. We have trim start, trim end and trim offset.
Trim start sets the trim position on a stroke.
Trim end sets the end position stroke and the offset basically offsets both the start and end as a unit. This is the easiest way to animate the stroke.
As you can see here, in this example, we've layered on a couple more of the same shapes, simply adjusted the values a little bit on the trim path effect, and you start to see how this can create very complex motion very quickly.
