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  • How to keep text stationary in after effects?

    Posted by Dan Scott on August 15, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Here’s an example of what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byJs0WrgBAw&feature=plcp, just the beginning part.
    Another way of putting it is say that I’m recording a game and as I am moving, text appears and it stays where it is and I walk through the text.
    Sorry if you can’t understand that well, I struggled trying to explain it.

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    Ken Foldenauer replied 13 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Ken Foldenauer

    August 15, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    You need to motion track your footage. make a null and target it with the tracking data, then parent your text layer to the null and do your positioning. you can find a number of tutorials if you just search for motion tracking.

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