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Weirdness when copying keyframes between layers
Enlightened ones
I’m creating an animation of a disco with a series characters who take it in turns to do a 30 second dance. Each character is composed of several Photoshop layers (one for each major body part). To save time I want to repeat some of the basic moves between characters. I’m trying to copy keyframes from a layer in one composition and paste them into a layer in a separate composition (e.g. pasting the left leg animation of one character to another). It kind of works but not quite – when I paste the keyframes into the target layer the position of that layer suddenly goes out of whack (e.g. the legs decide to relocate themselves in a random part of the screen).
The keyframes are pasting but something is going wrong en route. Any ideas?!
Cheers
Elvin
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3 Replies
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SPACEMAN suggest you duplicate the comp you have finished
and alt drag the new layers into the new comp. This replaces
the image, while retaining the keyframes. -
Great suggestion by Spaceman,
but you might get the same problem, it probably has to do with differing sizes of your different layers.
The Anchorpoints will be somewhere else, and that causes the shift.Also, it’s not evident to copy position or rotations from a parented layer to a different layer, because the actual keyframed value doesn’t describe exactly where the layer is, because it is in relation to the parent..
8-P Hope that’s clear.
Anyway, use Spaceman’s suggestion, then move the anchorpoint around untill it fits again.
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Great suggestion by Spaceman,
but you might get the same problem, it probably has to do with differing sizes of your different layers.
The Anchorpoints will be somewhere else, and that causes the shift.Also, it’s not evident to copy position or rotations from a parented layer to a different layer, because the actual keyframed value doesn’t describe exactly where the layer is, because it is in relation to the parent..
8-P Hope that’s clear.
Anyway, use Spaceman’s suggestion, then move the anchorpoint around untill it fits again.
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