Snap to guides not working in AE CS6

[Todd Kopriva]

I’m not disagreeing. I’m just giving a peek behind the curtain—and I need to ask for this as a feature internally.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Paul Roper]

Todd, you are a STAR! (Even if your points don’t always snap…!!)

“I’ll go down the hall and check with the engineer responsible for this part of the code and check”

This is one of the reasons I LOVE After Effects*…try getting this kind of response from Apple!

*Although CS6 does crash occasionally, which almost never happened with previous versions.

[Todd Kopriva]

> *Although CS6 does crash occasionally, which almost never happened with previous versions.

Keep submitting those bug reports so that we can find and fix what’s causing that.

And make sure that you’ve installed the latest updates. They fix a lot of problems.

> Todd, you are a STAR!

Thanks, but I’m just doing my job.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

The After Effects CC (12.2) update adds some snapping improvements:

After Effects CC (12.2) adds shape layer paths, bounding boxes for shapes within shape layers, cameras, and lights to the list of items that you can snap together by dragging in the Composition panel.

When you click near a shape layer path, After Effects will use a point on that path that is nearest to where you clicked as the snapping point, very much as with masks.

You can snap a shape in one shape layer to a shape in another shape layer, but you can’t snap shapes within one shape layer to one another. If you need to snap two shapes together, they must be in separate shape layers.

One quick and useful trick is to snap a light layer to a camera layer, so that you can effectively “look through” a light or simply illuminate wherever your camera is pointing.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Guto Cardoso]

Hi, I’m new to AE and I cannot make the snapping feature to work. I also don’t have the snapping button on the top bar that I see on tutorial…

Would really appreciate if someone could help me with this.

Many Thanks…

[Todd Kopriva]

> I’m new to AE and I cannot make the snapping feature to work. I also don’t have the snapping button on the top bar that I see on tutorial…

What exact version of After Effects are you using? I’m guessing that you’re trying to use a version before After Effects CC (12.0), in which the snapping features were introduced:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/06/snapping-of-layer-features-in-the-composition-panel-new-in-after-effects-cc-12-0.html

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Guto Cardoso]

Thank you for your reply, just found out 5 minutes ago that that was the problem. I’m using CS 6…