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Make layer stay in same place related to the moving background
Hi! I’ve recently bought ae6.5, and am currentlig stumbling my way in to the program. I have a videoclip of clouds. The camera slowly pans from right to left / tilts downwards at the same time. I have made a logo with cloud-like letters. I want this logo to stay in the same place in the sky, and slowly blur into sight.
The problem is that some of the logo is outside the visible screen as the camera pan starts, and then comes into the screen from left to right. To solve this, I animated the anchor point. This worked out, but was tedious, because I found no way to make after effects do the mathematics on how to drag the anchor point, which I had to do, since the camera moved both horizontically and vertically at the same time.
After some plunder it worked out though. But now i have to move the layer again, so I wonder, is there som easy, logic way of doing this, that I haven
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2 Replies
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Hi,
You can tie one layer to another’s movements using Parenting and/or expressions. I use parenting to make 1 layer move synchronously with another layer (think of a credits roll synched with an image moving at the same speed and with the same relative location – if I adjust the image postiion or keyframes, the credits adjust).
For more advanced “synching” or behaviors, look into expressions, although try the parenting, it is cake compared to expressions. Hope this helps.
milton
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it sounds like you want to track your logo into the sky. if i’m understanding you post… check out tracking – but you might be hard pressed to find a tracking point in your sky, unless you have a random black cloud
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