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reposition footage with keyframes?
Posted by Jason Zaloga on July 21, 2010 at 6:35 amcan you reposition footage and it’s motion path without disturbing the positional keyframes.
or do you just move the footage and re-do the keyframes.
Michael Szalapski replied 15 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies -
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Chris Kelley
July 21, 2010 at 7:09 amThe easiest way would be to parent your layer to a null, and then move the null. Your relative motion path for the original layer will remain unchanged when you move around the null object.
Read more about parent and child layers here:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7da0a.html—
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Michael Szalapski
July 21, 2010 at 1:18 pmThe null plan is the best one. But just to show that there is more than one way to skin a cat:
With your current time indicator on a position keyframe, you can click on the position property to select all the position keyframes and then scrub the position values. All the keyframes will adjust.
A third way:
Change the anchor point’s position.– The Great Szalam
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Michael Szalapski
July 21, 2010 at 5:43 pmYou could also add a couple slider effects to your layer and put an expression on the position with the two sliders as variables then add those variables to the x and y positions. (Add another slider for z position.
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