Specific shape size ?

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to create a tutorial for beginners with a bouncing ball. Everything alright so far, except one thing : When it comes to draw the ball shape with the Ellipse tool, everyone has a different circle size, depending on how large they draw it. Is there any way to put specific values to create the circle ? (Like in Illustrator where one simple click with the Shape tool brings the value window). It would be very interesting to find a way. Thanks for your time

Draw your shape with the Ellipse tool then select the shape layer and press the U key twice to reveal the shape layer properties. Manually type in the size of the eclipse and then reset the Position property of Ellipse 1. That will take you from this:
To this:
And give you a circle, perfectly centre on the anchor point of a specific size that you can then animate.
The other option would be to use a solid with a mask for your ball. Simply create a 200 X 200 solid then select the Elipse tool and the Solid layer, making sure the tool is set to mask and double click the Ellipse tool.
If you are creating tutorials about using shapes and you want to be taken seriously you should first type Shape Layers in the Search Help field at the top right corner of AE and follow the links to read up. About 90% of the YouTube tutorials on After Effects demonstrate inefficient and ineffective workflows and at about half of them teach techniques that develop very bad habits. Please study up.
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