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  • Layers position drifting

    Posted by Rob Thomas on March 14, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    This has happened to me on numerous occasions! So I have a logo that animates in and stays in the bottom right corner of the stage for the entirety of the animation. Upon reaching the end, it animates up to the center of the screen and then everything fades out.

    [The Issue] During the animation, the logo slowly drifts left and right about 50+ pixels or so. The last “position keyframe” at the beginning of the animation is exactly the same as the starting “position keyframe” at the ending animation, so it shouldn’t move! Ideas?? This is baffling me!

    Bob Anderson replied 15 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Joseph Springer

    March 14, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Check out the amchor point and see if there are keyframes set there, a good thing to do is select a layer and hit “u” or “uu” to see what changes have been done to that layer..

    Regards,
    Joe Springer
    Certified Adobe After Effects Training and Premiere Training Instructor

  • Nate Hanson

    March 14, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Is this a keyframe interpolation issue? Right-click on the keyframe in question and select Keyframe Interpolation. Then make sure the Spatial Interpolation is set to Linear.

    Sorry to waste your time if that is not the solution.

    Nate

  • Rob Thomas

    March 14, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    I found the issue myself about 15 minutes after i posted this! It was a keyframe interpolation issue. It was set to roving, so I simply changed it to locked time and it behaves perfectly. Thanks for all the quick responses though!

  • Bob Anderson

    October 6, 2010 at 4:27 am

    Wow, Dave! You posted this 2.5 years ago, and tonight your wisdom has saved my skin! Isn’t it great to drop “solution seeds” that just keep on bearing a harvest? (I love this forum!).

    Thank you, sir,
    Bob

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