How to free transform warp in after effects

Got optimistic for a minute there. But unfortunately it distorts the clip so much that i can't use this technique.

Thanks! Easy and great!

wow well I didnt know about pin corners and it just helped me a lot so thanks!!

Is there any way to keyframe this? I want to animate it.

Genius workaround to a very silly problem! Thanks fren.

Corner Pin seemed to be EXACTLY what I needed at the moment, thank you very much Mikey from 2015

you are an absolute G, thank you! I couldn't figure this one out.

may allah bless u m <3

good suff, just what i needed!

That is amazing! Really usefull effect!

This is ....revolutionary!! thank you for the great tip! Saving Pre comps one mask at the time!

Hmm, didn't show me the result outside the static mask, it cut off the result within it's borders. Otherwise it did what it had to, just not showing the "star shapes" outside the original star :(

Thanks for sharing these! I had no idea how this worked before! Also, I had completely forgotten about corner pin!

is there a way to set something like 4 corner pins somewhere on a picture and move the pins to transform the picture? I need that because I have a picture with 4 points and I need to perfectly match it to another picture with 4 points and its kind of difficult to use corner pins since the points on the picture aren't on the corner, its more in the middle.

Thanks for this.

Thank you sir!

decent workaround, but im still mad at adobe for not making this more simple

Amazing!! Just what I needed. Thank you so much.

why adobe can't just take a fucking clue, I know they need to make money but do they have to squeeze out every features to make another standalone product for.

شكككرا جزيلا

i was trying to figure out how they put a scene inside a video, like a hologram and distort it in such a way to that it looks like a hologram of some sort.

Thank you this is so helpful!

Thank you! This is how the puppet tool should behave! :D

Thank you! This has spared me a brain aneurysm and mitigated a burgeoning case of onset Tourettes. Its probably me, but is there no practical / less convoluted way of doing a regular distort (like in photoshop) i.e. taking the corners of the LAYER instead of the corners of the whole COMP (like 'corner pin' does)?

awesome

Hold the Alt key when you make your shape to begin with, and you will have adjustable paths and points.
(Also experiment holding and teleasing control key as you drag your shape for different variations)

Big thx

Exactly what i needed in a quick explanation, thank's a lot

poggers! helped me out so much

Brilliant! Thank You!

WAIT but how do u animate this

Exactly what I was looking for. Excellent tutorial never get old... Thank you so much.

Thank you!

I dont get why they have to make it so complicated for something so simple. Premiere after effects and photoshop should all be merged into one program that does everything.

Thank you so much!!! I'm doing post for a thesis project right now and this actually saved me a lot of time <3

Bro, i owe you a debt i will never repay, but thank you

How do you do mask path tracking for video if the layer is locked???

Thanks for this pro tip. I've been trying to find a proper warp tool in AE, that I can link to expression driven dynamics. This does the job nicely.
Thanks!

Awesomeness!!! Thanks! exactly what I needed!!

No way to keyframe the transform?

Actually, it's not transforming. That's just point editing that you can do with the selection tool. Transforming would apply to the whole shape or group of points. So the real answer is: no, you can't free transform in AE; you have to point edit to simulate it.

You're a rockstar! Exactly what i needed in a quick explanation, Thank You!

Thank you very much friend!!! You helped a lot!

Brilliant! This was IMMENSELY helpful. Thank you!

THANK YOU A LOT!!!!

the mesh warp worked for me
thanks :)

Thank you so much! Now i know how to transform the shapes and the others stuffs. =]

it's not like the basic tool we use in photoshop. That's so stupid they don't have it on AE.