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  • Quick way to reposition the layer

    Posted by Dotan Stern on March 28, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    Hi
    im not sure if there is a way to do it with expression but why not try
    here is what i did :
    i made animation using time remapping to freeze frame of the video
    the freeze frame is parent to a tracker that moves all the layer
    im creating the animation go back to the same layer position
    but im doing it by looking and nudging the position key frames
    is there a way to tell the layer position to go to the exact position as it started from?
    reset position doesn’t help at all
    thanx

    Dotan Stern replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Filip Vandueren

    March 28, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    please clarify more.

    – you tracked a point on a video, right ?
    – you’re moving a freezeframe still over that video by parenting to the motion of the tracked point (probably applied to Null layer) ?

    what are you animating ?
    what layer are you nudging ?
    what do you want to reset to the ‘exact position it started from’

  • Dotan Stern

    March 28, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    Ok sorry ill try to explain better
    what im doing is the effect of a sky surfer jumping and i have a video of him jumping
    the camera is not fixed so i tracked it and applied to a null
    i then use freeze frames of the jumper and linked to the null
    i used time remapping to freeze the frame
    so before the video ends i want the freeze frame to continue the motion of the video
    but the video is now offset to the right cause of the tracking
    so what i did was animation the position of the freeze frame
    and thats work good
    im asking if there is a way to do it quicker then finding the right position points

  • Dotan Stern

    March 30, 2009 at 11:50 am

    Anyone have an answer on how to poistion the layer back to its default after it was moved by a null with tracking?

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