Hi, I’m new here. I posted this same post in CreativeCow, but I figured it I might get a faster, and better variety of answers if I post here as well.
Just started reading a book on After Effects. I know how to get by in AE on a primitive level, but this book is helping refine my skills and teach me new ones.
Although, at times, it’s hard to understand.
For example, this: http://books.google.com/books?id=xUwCwEB8BA4C&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=danny+pri…
The problem is on page 63 of that book. I just can’t get that method to work. I assume it would allow me to set things up so that I could just duplicate the last layer and a line of images like that would appear, I wouldn’t have to keep moving the pivot point…or something.
The whole lesson on pan-behind tool and holding alt seems to be reversed. According to the book, moving the pivot point with the pan-behind tool should make the object conform to it, and holding Opt while doing so would move the pivot point without moving the object position. For me it seems alt actually moves the pivot and the position, and just normal pan-behind moves only the pivot point.
I am editing in the composition window, not a layer window, if it makes any difference.
Can anyone help me out here, or at least let me know what this trick is supposed to do? Maybe link to a video?
Thanks