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After Effects – how to PAN and ZOOM independently of the videos you are compositing???
Hi everyone, even though I am fairly good with some of AE, one really basic noob thing has completley gone over my head! –
I have a large panoramic landscape photo with a tree and a waterfall. I can pan left-to-right fine.But when I want to zoom in a little at the end, the only way I know of doing this is to adjust ‘scale’ of the tree AND the landscape.
The waterfall is a video that I want to ‘fix’ to the landscape so it stays in one place as I pan across the whole scene –
at the moment I try and keep it in one place(roughly) by moving it and keyframing it every frame.I know both of these problems will seem absolutley ridiculous to most of you, and frankly its driving me nuts! I cant find anything in help.
I guess I am looking for a ‘master layer’ or something that treats all the other layers as flat, and for the waterfall, some way of ‘attaching’ one layer to another.Any help very much appreciatted, and I making this for a non profit website, so its all for a good cause at the end of the day.
Thanks!
Guy-the-noob
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6 Replies
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Not sure if I understand correctly what you are trying to do. If it’s what I think, I’d try parenting both the tree and the waterfall layers to the landscape layer. Positioning and scaling the landscape layer should then take care of the other layers as well.
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If these are all 2D layers then you just need to parent the waterfall and the tree to the landscape layer. It’s advisable to remove any keyframes you had set on the layers before you parent them, as these keyframes will become relative to the Landscape layer space as opposed to the composition space.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
I thought I should also mention that your use of the very specifically camera related terms ‘pan’ and ‘zoom’ confused me at first, and probably confused a few other people who thought the question was going to be about Cameras in AE.
Panning left to right definitely isn’t the same thing as moving a layer right to left. Nor is scaling a layer the same thing as zooming a camera (although it can have an identical effect in certain circumstances). It helps to keep terms as accurate and specific as possible since we can’t actually see what you’re talking about!
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
“I thought I should also mention that your use of the very specifically camera related terms ‘pan’ and ‘zoom’ confused me at first, and probably confused a few other people who thought the question was going to be about Cameras in AE.”
Exactly the reason for my (possible) confusion.
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you could also precompose the backround and all the elements you want stuck to it and then pan/zoom etc on the single layer of fully composited footage.
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PARENTING! Thats the ticket! thanks guys
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