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distribute position – can’t have keyframes?
Hey Everyone,
I had this experience today and feel like it should be different…just trying to confirm.
I have 4 text layers that I want to distribute vertically…but it will ONLY let me distribute them if I don’t have ANY keyframing set for the position. It seems that it would just create 4 new keyframes (one on each layer) at the location of the current time indicator.
Is this correct, that I have to remove all keyframing from the layers to distribute them?
Thanks,
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[Jason Brown] “It seems that it would just create 4 new keyframes (one on each layer) at the location of the current time indicator.”
that’s the way it works for me (mac cs3 and cs4), i get new keyframes at that time for the text layers (except the top and bottom most layers, which aren’t actually being distributed).
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
The project is creating basically glorified power point. So I am duplicating the comps and then changing the text content…so the size/spacing/# of lines changes for each one.
The animation is not to move them as a whole unit (parenting) but to stagger them on – like a ripple having them land every 4 frames…the animation ending needs to be *cascading*…that would be a good word to use.
So they all start off screen @ the same position but move independently to land.
Make Sense?
I’m just trying to figure out if this is my machine being buggy (which it is quite often) or the functionality of AE.
-Jason
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mine creates keyframes (for the 2 middle) but it doesn’t move them…if I remove all keyframing (unselect stopwatch) it moves them and looks appropriate.
Strange!?
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i think you are trying to do more of what dave has mentioned…
you don’t want to generate new keyframes, you want change the values of the keyframes…
say the second from the top layer has an animation from p1 (0,180) to p2 (320,180). for the next animation you want it to have new y values.. so p1 (0,150) to p2 (320,150). adding a keyframe in the middle won’t change those start/end point values, it will just add a new value in the middle.
what you need to do is create your position animation with nulls, then attach the text layers to the appropriate null. the text layers can then be repositioned independent of the animation, so you can use the distribute function to adjust their y positions, but they will still follow the same animation of their nulls.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Kevin,
That is a GREAT idea…I’ll try that.
Thanks to you and Dave!
-Jason
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I am forced to recreate terrible PP in AE regularly.
I use snap to guides to set the ending x-y positions.bogiesan
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