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Centering Elements
How do people center elements in After Effects? I’m eyeballing elements using these blurry looking guides After Effects uses and it just isn’t doing justice.
I know there’s ‘align’ but the person who built the comps that I’m editing didn’t take that into consideration with their imported elements so align doesn’t help.
Is there a standard to center elements with guides that I’m missing?
I’m tired of saying “I guess that looks centered.”
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
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2 Replies
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When adding an element to a comp, drag it from the project panel into the timeline instead of into the comp window. Dragging to the comp window will place it wherever you drop it, but dragging to the timeline will place element at the center of the comp by default.
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Just to add to Terry response.
All layers etc… in the timeline have transform properties. The position values in there can be inputted directly and AE will perform basic maths for you too.
For example, if you want a layer exactly in the middle of a 1920×1080 comp, you can click on the X value and type:
1920/2
And AE will set the X to 960
And you can do the same for the Y value, 1080/2.
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