COW Tutorials: After Effects Scaling a Motion Path in After Effects

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

“Drag scale value back to original (scrub, using command or alt to fine-tune).”

Did you try this? It falls apart at this step. You would think that you could alter many keyframes for the scale on the same layer at once but you can’t.

I think you can only do it for multiple layers, and only on that frame.

Please prove me wrong. This would be a better if more involved way to do it.

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[Eric Lease]

You’re right, it falls apart. You can alter multiple scale key frames, but they scale absolutely, not proportionally. I should have checked my test comp better. Could still be done by duplicating the layer and parenting it to itself, etc., but that’s not exactly a simple solution. I guess if you had a really complicated motion path with a heavily tweaked acceleration graph, my method might be quicker (since you wouldn’t have to rebuild all of that pesky graph info), but yours is certainly better for most stuff. Wonder if AE7 will solve the problem by letting you scale values in the new graph editor.