James Poulakos
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Darn, the links Todd gave in this thread no longer work.
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Sadly, this is no longer true as of Thursday, May 3, 2018, using Encore CS6 with Photoshop CC 2018 on a Mac (macOS 10.12.6).
The Photoshop art will not refresh. It doesn’t matter how many times you save it, how many times you save the Encore project, or how many times you reopen Encore.
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Señor Bueno, you inspired me to test this shortcut on my own Mac.
I don’t have a ‘Fn’ key on my desktop Mac keyboard*, but I do have a Home key.
On my Mac, running macos Sierra and AE CC 2017, this is what works for me: Cmd Alt(Opt) Home.
I assume, if I were using a Macbook Pro, I would have to add the Fn key, because that’s the way to type the Home key. Therefore, my shortcut on the Macbook should be: Cmd Alt(Opt) Fn UpArrow
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Ian was right. That double-click shortcut does not zoom in to the work area. It sets the work area to the begin and end of the composition.
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Was very pleased to discover this today in AE CC 2017 on Mac, with your help.
Especially pleased that it works with my comps, which aren’t precomped material. They are imported Adobe Illustrator files with tons of layers to animate.
It’s odd that I can’t get the “Update” option if I delete the nested comp’s markers, but OK by me. This discovery will speed up the rest of the week’s work.
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Whoops, I was writing my long post while you were posting your more elegant solution.
Wow, great to know that line about setting a layer’s position equal to another’s. Thanks again!
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I think I just found a solution to the position problem: if I set the child’s position to 0,0,0 *but only after parenting it*, it jumps to the position of its parent.
I can change all of the children’s positions at once (thanks to After Effects’s brilliant keyboard shortcuts and its ability to edit a parameter on all selected objects at once).
Before I do any of this (running your script, editing their position), I must remember to set all image layers as 3D (duh) and set them to auto-orient to face the camera. If I leave the auto-orient step out till later, it won’t work, but if I apply it before I parent them, the orientation works.
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Dan, thanks so much. That almost does the trick.
But the parented images don’t move to the positions of their parents. They just sit there, exactly where I placed them. They move in relation to the nulls, but I need each one to be relocated to its parent’s position in 3D space.
That’s normal parenting behavior. I need the parenting behavior you get when you hold down Shift while parenting. This snaps the child to the parent’s position.
Is there a way to modify the expression so that they get parented the same way that parenting works when I hold down Shift?
Or, if this is a quicker fix: I’m searching for a way to paste an expression on the child’s position that simply tells it: ‘make your position the same as your parent’ … but the methods I’m finding all seem to require an explicit reference to a parent, by its name. That won’t work. It would have to be “this layer’s parent, whatever that may be called”.
There’s gotta be a way to refer to a given layer’s parent, in expressions, without knowing in advance what the layer’s name is, right?
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Bless ye, ye done me good.
That was a great tip about using the Pan Behind (Y) tool to Slip Edit.
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Since about August 2015, it’s been possible to automatically center the anchor point in After Effects CC 2015. I discovered this feature today.
For earlier versions of After Effects, you’ll want to pursue Kevin Reiner’s tip, posted above on Nov 12, 2015 at 3:03:50 am.