Doh, sorry wrong way.
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On Behalf Of Michael Powers
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 2:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] brain freeze - select path of shape layer?
Redifinery: rd_masksToShapes.jsx does it
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On Behalf Of scott.aelist
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 2:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] brain freeze - select path of shape layer?
Indeed i don't think you can copy/paste a parametric path shape to a mask. There is a script somewhere to convert shape layers to masks..