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Hello,
I am a novice to After Effects and have a question. I am creating a short animation for a video project and I want a series of circles to emanate from the same position in the composition, scale up and then disappear. When I animate the scale of the layers the end position of the shape is always different, whereas I want all the shape layers to retain the same start and end position, only for their size to change from that centred position. I guess this has something to do with Anchor points but I cannot find the answer. Many thanks for any advice!
Sure, one thing I forgot to mention: this is basic stuff. Ae is not a video editor. it's not that intuitive. you have to make sure to nail the basics before you dive in or else you will get stuck over and over, and with it - feel frustrated.
make sure you at least exhaust the free tutorials on the Adobe page:
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if all your shapes are on one layer, you would need to scale them from the scale property of they group in the shape content hierarchy
Like this:
if the shapes are each on different layer you would need to center the anchor point for each layer so that the scale would be from the center. you can center the anchor point with shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Home and some other shortcut exist as well for this
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Hey Roei, thanks so much for your reply! I will try again now using your tip.
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Sure, one thing I forgot to mention: this is basic stuff. Ae is not a video editor. it's not that intuitive. you have to make sure to nail the basics before you dive in or else you will get stuck over and over, and with it - feel frustrated.
make sure you at least exhaust the free tutorials on the Adobe page:
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AE is not a video editor. A video editor is not suited for doing thing like creating shapes, sizing them, and animating them. That's the point of AfterEffects.
I don't think the OP is trying to use their Premiere experience to use AfterEffects or expects it to be the same. Premier is not intuitive when it comes to this either--and the standard advice? Premiere isn't suited to that, use AfterEffects
So yes, one does have to learn AfterEffects to use it. I think it's OK that the OP asks a question about the basics.