Spread Z dimension leaving relevant scale to camera intact

[Kevin Camp]

I think this is what you are looking for:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-79fca.html

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Francois Driessen]

Thanks, K

Was thinking there would be an expression for sure, but I need to have it set up once only, and then have the expression let go of the values so that I can generate parallax shift by animating the AE camera. Any thoughts here?

Motion had this feature to reverse scatter layers in Z space to maintain scale. (Not that Motion would work for this project) . Was wondering if AE snuck it in after the last few updates…

Francois

FireTrigger Inc.
https://firetrigger.com

[Matthew Keane]

Hi,

If you’re trying to spread parts of the same image out in z-space to give the illusion of depth, there’s a script called something like ‘psd2layers’ which does just that with the layers of a PSD, and applies an expression to the scale parameter so that you can slide elements around while maintaining their apparent size. Might be worth searching for, if that’s what you’re attempting.

[Todd Kopriva]

I think that this is what you’re looking for:
https://aescripts.com/pt_multiplane/

It’s linked to from After Effects Help, by the way.

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