[Andy Kiernan]

If you mean this, its called co-ordinates manager. Get in from Window>co-ordinates manager

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[Andy Kiernan]

my idea was to use parenting and script, so the child matches the parents out point.

This may help you or may not go far enough, but here you are anyway.

Im no coder so i cheated and used Chatgpt!

(cant upload jsx apparently so if you want it, when you download rename it and change .txt to .jsx

select the parent and child, then run the script.

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var parentLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0]; var childLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[1]; if (parentLayer != null && childLayer != null) { childLayer.outPoint = parentLayer.outPoint; }

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[Andy Kiernan]

maybe try, put your cam in a null, use the align to spline tag on null, this will enable you to animate the cam along path and control speed, the null give you flexibility to alter the cams rotations

[Andy Kiernan]

I have made a basic example for you to look at. There are 3 text layers, made 3D and moved in 3D space, a 3D null as a centre point, the text layers are parented to the null, then I selected all text layers, went to transform in the menu and applied Auto-orient to camera. The y-axis on the null is then animated to move all texts.

I hope this helps you

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[Andy Kiernan]

Hi Dylan

can you share an image of what you are trying to achieve?

If this is it,,, Create the BBC World News Ident in After Effects ✔ – YouTube

For text, make text layers 3D, place them where you want, and attach to a null and use this to rotate them. Use Auto-orient to camera so they always face forward

[Andy Kiernan]

Hi Michael,

No its the Ai light thing in octane settings, as far as i understand when activated, it alters the sampling rate for individual lights in the scene, raising or lowering to make the render more efficient. So not sure why that would cause a box in my render, unless there is some issue with that process being completed via the network, even though Ive not seen that before!

[Andy Kiernan]

you can alter the handles in the structure manager and copy paste values

[Andy Kiernan]

strange, but turning off the Ai light settings solved this. Ive no idea why though…

[Andy Kiernan]

adding to Mads, you can easily create a depth map in PS (neural filter things) then use displacement in AE to create a very subtle but easy bit of parallax. Not sure this actually helps with the original question but there you are!

[Andy Kiernan]

it could be that you introduce some animated noise/grain to the ‘clip’ and that may help. Add some pan and scan and maybe itll work