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  • scaling a vector image from illustrator using null

    Posted by Cristina Chapman on December 12, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    Hi,

    I’ve imported my composition from illustrator which is a vector of england which I would like to start off zoomed in one one town then zoom out with spirals of trees appearing around this point.

    problems i’m having are-
    i want all the layers to stay in the composition i arranged them out in illustrator when i zoom in, so i parented them all with a null layer, i’m now zoomed in by 6000% and still not at the point i want and i keep having to set the magnification ratio to 3% because that null layer i made is way off in the distance because i don’t know how to move it to the point i want to zoom in on.

    is there a less complicated way of doing this?

    John Cuevas replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    December 12, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    Check out this tutorial by Andrew Kramer at Video Copilot.

    https://videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”—THOMAS EDISON

  • Cristina Chapman

    December 12, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    Thankyou but i’m using vectors not images, I want to zoom in really close and zoom out fully but only one layer zooms in instead of all of them 🙁

  • John Cuevas

    December 12, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    Gotcha. What you could do is daisy chain nulls. Now that the first Null is too large and hard to move around, create a another null and parent the first null to it….and so on if more are needed.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”—THOMAS EDISON

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