How do you move the entire path at once?

[danielb94023111]

 Pretty simple question I just need to move this text and the path that it's moving along down. How do I do that?

I have one picture where the motion path is and then I made another picture of what I want to do with the motion path. Can anyone tell me how I can select the entire motion path and move the whole thing down at one time?

[John T Smith]

When you post a question you always need to tell the Adobe program you are using
There are MANY programs in a full subscription, plus other non-subscription programs
Please post the exact name of the Adobe program you use so a Moderator may move this message to that forum

[danielb94023111]

Oh my gosh I'm sorry I thought I did that. It's crazy Adobe even makes the help forum, where you ask other people who don't work for Adobe difficult to use.

It's for after effects. Thank you 

[danielb94023111]

I can't even see how to edit this post. Do you know how to edit this post?

[John T Smith]

To ask in the forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/

Moved to the correct forum

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

You can attach the path to the text layer if the position of the text layer is animated. 

You can use sourceRectAtTime() to create an expression that always figures out where the bottom of the text layer is.

If you are using a text animator to move the text layer, you can tie those values to the position property of the line.

Uploaded screenshots that are cropped tell us nothing about your workflow. Select both layers, press the U key twice to show all of the modified properties of both layers, take a screenshot of the entire UI, then drag it to the reply field or copy and paste it to the reply field on the forum instead of uploading it with the "Drag & drop here..." button so we can see it without downloading and we can probably help you figure out a solution.

[ShiveringCactus]

From what I can see, you could either:

• Leave it where it is and adjust the Anchor for the layer.  This shifts the text relative to its position
  or
• Create a Null Object, parent the layer to that and move that.  All the position changes will still happen to the layer, but its position is now based on the null layer and not the comp.

You could also (I'd suggest reading this really quickly then ignoring it) precompose it or turn it into an essential graphic for reuse with different text or use expressions like Rick suggests or add a point control to the existing position using an expression like value+effect("Point Control")("Point") and then update the point control values... And I'm sure there's other options too.