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Using a motion tracker to adjust a layer’s anchor point
Hello all!
I’ve got an animation with a zoom. I am going from a very small area and pulling out to see the entire shot, but I want to scale one of the layers in the shot while the entire image is scaling (hope that made sense).
I used Analyze Motion to track a specific point on the base layer, and now I want to apply that data to the anchor point of the layer that I want to “grow” over the course of the shot.
Is this possible? I couldn’t find anything in the manuals about applying tracking data to parameters other than the three basic ones, but I though I should check.
Thanks in advance!
Ken
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2 Replies
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Howdy,
You can use the ‘Track’ parameter behavior. Just right-click on the Anchor Point parm name and select ‘Track’ from the menu. The behavior will put a single tracker onscreen and will apply it to the target parameter.
If you’ve already got a good track done in your Analyze Motion behavior, though, there’s no need to re-track. Just click on the little gear-icon menu in the Inspector for the Track behavior and it will allow you to select the already-existing Analyze Motion, grabbing the data from the other behavior. All tracking-related behaviors can share data with one another.
Good luck on your project!
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Excellent info.
Thanks very much!
Ken
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