[Roy Guinn]

Well, like I said from the get go, I’m a bit out of my element in AE, just jumped into it and I feel like a fish out of water. But thanks for all the feedback, and the direction to the tutorials.

[Roy Guinn]

LOL I think I followed all that. I posted a short clip but it hasn’t cleared the gate keepers yet. The base layer, which is the background, has a short pan at the begining that was part of the shot footage. It was then droped into AE with nothing else done to it. The forground characters, meant to be a crowd at the bottom edge of the screen, were filmed against a green screen and layed over the background. I checked that the two layers are not linked in AE, however the animation responds as if they are. The crowd should be slightly off camera at the begining and come into view as the background pans toward them, so that they look like they are in the environment. What is happening is the crowd is panning with the camera. Very confusing since the pan itself is part of the shot, and not an effect in AE, and the crowd is a different layer alltogether.