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Add an AI file with Camera Tracker
Hello! I am creating a kinetic typography. I have text added to my comp using camera tracker. Now I want to add a graphic I made in illustrator. I tried creating a solid with the camera tracker, and then track matting the AI file to the solid, but the then AI won’t move with the tracker. What am I missing? Thanks in advance!
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I tried that too. It won’t follow the same motion because the camera tracker doesn’t put in key frames for the texts position, so if I parent it, it won’t move.
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Okay, well that doesn’t work. The text is in the proper position. Its moving as I want it to. I positioned the AI file where i want it to be in relation to the text, parented it to the text, RAM previewed, and it doesnt move at all from where I positioned it.
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AE 11.0.4.2 on a Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.2, 2.6 GHz, 8gb
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Yeah, that didn’t solve it.
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Your text is probably not moving…YOUR CAMERA is. Are you checking the 3d switch to ON in this .ai file layer?
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My 3D was off, i switched it on and parented it to the text layer. Now it moves, but not with the text. Its all jittery and going all over the place.
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parent it to the text while holding down shift. Or just copy paste the text’s position to the .ai.
Again, your text ain’t moving, theres no need to parent anything to it. You just need to make sure you’re placing the .ai in the same place as the text. Holding shift moves the layer to its(now) parent’s position.
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THERE we go! Okay. So what does it do when I hold shift and parent?
I didn’t think that parenting it would do anything because I knew there were no keyframes in the texts position so it wouldn’t make the ai move. -
Holding shift is the same as parenting then zeroing out position/rotation and setting scale to 100%.
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