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jdanielmurphy
jdanielmurphy
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March 22, 2022
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Align to Key Object

  • March 22, 2022
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Why, oh why, is there not a way to easily Align to Key Object in After Effects like there is in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign? Or am I missing something? I know of workarounds, but why isn't it as simple as it is in other Adobe apps?

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    TackStudio
    TackStudio
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    December 13, 2023

    It's your lucky day! We've just released a tool which allows you to do exactly this — go.http://go.tackstudio.co/align-pro

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
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      March 22, 2022

      Currently there is simply no way to interactively determine these things and everything is limited by the layer paradigm. A simple layer selection does not "see" the actual content to make a determination about the effective bounding boxes of the layer content. That would require quite some changes to how AE works and accesses the layer pixel data.

       

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