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  (Scale) shrinking objects in After Effects

  Posted by Kristen Garcia on March 1, 2013 at 8:02 pm

  I’m scaling my images down in After Effects. I have a few layers highlighted and have moved my pointer forward in my timeline to grab the animation. But when I shrink the images down they are no longer correctly spaced proportionally. Anyone have any ideas to solve this?

  Kristen Garcia replied 13 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  March 1, 2013 at 8:20 pm

  If I understand correctly you could link all layers you want to size down to a Null and scale down the Null- this will keep proportions.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  John Cuevas

  March 1, 2013 at 8:20 pm

  Are you scaling multiple layers? When you do that they scale down on there own anchor point. One method to scale proportionally is to create a null layer, parent everything to the null and scale the null.

  ETA: And Ted beat me to it.

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  Kristen Garcia

  March 1, 2013 at 8:22 pm

  Good idea, thank you!

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