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Flowers going in a circle
Hi, thanks for reading…
Would like to place 6 movies of blooming flowers. They would be forming a circle on the screen, then have them all rotate around in a circle.
What I mean by circle is: Image the face of a clock and they are all rotating around the rim of the clock, equally spaced. All staying upright.
How can one do this easily, wo animating each one individually w its own key frames.?
Thanks so much for your thots..
Warmly,
Hope__________________________________________________
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You would parent them to a null at the center of your comp and rotate the null. Then on the objects you would alt-click on rotation, pick whip to the null and add minus sign to counter the nulls rotation.
-thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).transform.rotation
Here’s a sample project if I wasn’t clear: 5612_rotation.aep.zip
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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Dear John,
Thanks so much. Will give it a try…Unfortunately am running AE 10, so cant open the AE 11 file. But will see if I can do it.
So, so sweet of you.
Appreciate.__________________________________________________
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Hi again…just realized after trying this brilliant suggestion, that want we want, it is to actually rotate them not in an exact circle, but in an elliptical shape.
What do you think?
Warmly,
Hope__________________________________________________
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Hi John…
Ok, got the AE 10 project…and got mine to work, based on it…thank you so much.
I guess if one wants to do something like this in an elliptical path, then either one has to make the circle version first, then pre-comp it, and scale it to an elliptical in the new comp.
To anyone else trying this….seems one has to have the CTI on the first rotation keyframe to get it to work.
OR
just have to hand keyframe each item to go in the elliptic?
Is this right?THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!
Warmly,
Hope__________________________________________________
Life is here to enjoy.
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