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Roland Kahlenberg
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May 14, 2025
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AE Tutorial - Demystifying Anchor Point & Position Values

  • May 14, 2025
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Lots of AE users have little, maybe-ideas and even AE trainers with 10 years of experience have issues in this area. It's like a dark Freemason secret.  🙂

This tutorial provides insights into this area and shows how they work with different layer types.

https://youtu.be/QsiaiIn93yM

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nishu_kush
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May 15, 2025

Contributions like yours make our community such a great place to learn and grow. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and help others out. You're a rockstar!

Thanks, @Roland Kahlenberg 


Thanks,
Nishu

Roland Kahlenberg
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May 16, 2025

Thank you for th ekind words, Nishu. 

The next one will be interesting. It's something I've had  this AEP for about 12-13 years and I've used it to teach the Tect Tool in my AE classes - it's about Demystifying Range Selectors.

There are lots of tutorials on the Text Layer's Range Selector but AFAIK, they all skip a few parameters or fail to cover critical parameters in a sufficient manner. So, when mine comes on board, it will (hopefully) help demystify A LOT - maybe not everything BUT a lot, and it should open more creative opportunities for AE users when working with the Text Tool and the Range Selector. 

Have a great weekend.

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Roland Kahlenberg
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May 16, 2025

Here's the clean Table

 

 

And a teaser for the, maybe, video tutorial. This rig uses Responsive MoGraph Features so that it works with different text inputs. The original rig I worked on was done about 12 years ago - before sourceRectAtTime(). I spent a bit of time making it responsive - so it's quite cool now. 

It of course replicates the Range Selector's every parameter so that it provides a pretty good visualizer for how it works.


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