After Effects: Change position while rotating to point of focus

Report · Nov 14, 2019

I am working on a world map. My idea is to have location markers on the map and pan across the map while highlighting different locations with the markers. It will function like a video game HUD- as the camera pans across, the location markers will rotate so they are always oriented away from the center of the comp.

I was wondering if there was a way to create a null object or something which the location markers will always rotate towards. I could attach this to the camera's point of interest so that the markers rotate towards the middle of the video I am making. Any ideas?

Btw, this is my first post, so sorry if I a doing something incorrectly.

Report · Nov 14, 2019

You can tie the Camera's Point of Interest to the position of null with an expression. Just reveal the position property of the Null, then Alt/Option-click on the stopwatch for Point of interest, then drag the pickwhip to the position property of the Null. The null can then be animated.

It sounds like you are very new to AE. You will find more info here: Learn AE. That is the link from the Learn section of the After Effects Home Screen.