auto center anchor point?

[Jack Watts]

You need to activate the “pan behind tool”. You can do this by pressing “y” on your Keyboard and then manually move the anchor point to the centre of your layer.Remember all animations applied to the layer will animate from the anchor point such as scaling,tracking etc.

For a full list of Keyboard shortcuts see keyboard shortcuts under the help menu within AE or just click on the following link

Keyboard Shortcuts

[Darby Edelen]

To my knowledge there isn’t an easy way to center the anchor point vertically on the text. The way to do it horizontally is to go to the Paragraph panel and choose to center align the text.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Kevin Camp]

and if you want to center the anchor point vertically with the text, you’ll need to adjust the ‘baseline’ in the character palette.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Franco Andrade]

Is there a way, a script, plugin, whatever, to align automatically to the center of the object?

[Matt Reyer]

To reset the anchor point to its default location in the layer, Alt-double-click (Windows) or Option-double-click (Mac OS) the Pan Behind tool button.

[Juan martín Fourcaud]

And for Auto center the anchor point on a Layer, is Ctrl-double-click (Windows) or Cmd-double-click (Mac OS) the Pan Behind tool button.

[Mike Mairs]

Fast solution – 4s

Centering anchor inside textlayer

• Click Pan Behind Tool: shortcut (y)
• Firstly drag anchor around
• Secondly press STRG and let it snap to the centerpoint

Centering textlayer inside comp

• Activate Title/Action Safe whichs brings up a comp-CENTER-Point
• Click Selection Tool (V)
• Click on the textlayer in layers palette
• Drag the textlayer in view window around
• Press STRG and dock Textlayer-Anchor to comp-CENTER

[Muhammad Salleh]

its ctrl + alt + home.. for WINDOWS. walllah…
Only in CS2014 upwards i think.. (notsure)

[Kevin Reiner]

https://aescripts.com/repositionanchorpoint/

I use this scrip at lease 20 times a day. Very simple but so useful. It moves your anchor point to the middle, the corners, or the sides without messing up your animations.

[Joseph Simons]

The answer is simpler than all of these responses!