[Jamie Hancock]

Thanks for that. Is Expressions the only way to do it, then?

[Jamie Hancock]

It kind of helped, yeah, insofar as it demystified Expressions a little for me. I now have everything linked by expressions and zooming together, but can’t for the life of me find an easy way to have the positional transformation without keyframing everything one at a time, which will take forever!

[Jamie Hancock]

Hey Michael,

Yeah, I tried parenting, but the layers took on all the properties of the parent layer rather than just selected ones. I only want them all to scale in/out at the same rate, not to move to the same position, because as I zoom on the chain, those to the left and/or right of the one that fills the screen will all need to be in different positions in reference to the central one. When I parented them to it, they went to the same position also. Hope this makes sense! Maybe I didn’t explain properly what I wanted them to do…

[Jamie Hancock]

Ok, that sounds good, thanks. I’m an Illustrator novice, though. Is recreating that in vector fairly straightforward?

[Jamie Hancock]

Brilliant. Thanks, Michael. I’ll check them out first thing in the morning. I’m done for today!

[Jamie Hancock]

Hi Michael, Declan

Thanks to you both. The masking option seems the easier one as I’m up against it timewise.

My shot is locked off, yeah. Her hand only catches the corner of the smaller footage, but it is still noticeable.

Declan, what mask would you suggest to use? Would I then use the track matte effect? Sorry, but I’m pretty new to AE and so am still learning some of the basics, hence this issue causing me so much grief!

[Jamie Hancock]

Hi Mike

This seems the best solution. I love the look of Stagetools, but can’t stretch to the cost.

So, when I export from Photoshop, what is the best format to export in so that the layers are recognised in Premiere when I import it?

[Jamie Hancock]

Hi Mike

Thanks for your reply. I was after a little more, yeah, but feared the response would be similar to yours! I don’t have the time for faux 3D if it very time consuming. I’ll just have to make do with the motion effects.

Cheers

J…

[Jamie Hancock]

Thanks for the help, everyone. I’ll see what I can do about getting access to plugins, but it’d doubtful, to be honest. I’ll take all of your suggestions on board, though…

[Jamie Hancock]

Thanks for that, Dave. However, I had nothing to do with the shoot, unfortunately. I’ve inherited the project as the editor, and so am trying to achieve the look that the director wants without the need for reshoots that the project budget won’t stretch to, hence my posting here in the AE forum…