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dissidently
dissidently
Inspiring
July 17, 2013
Question

Why is it not possible to separate the dimensions of the top position in a rectangle?

  • July 17, 2013
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See the screen shot below.


Because I'm using a repeater I'd like to separate the dimensions for finer animation control up in this top Position of the Rectangle.

Why is this not possible?

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    JamAttack
    JamAttack
    Participant
    May 4, 2022

    These replies don't actually work. I found a much better way, just make a null object and tie the effect position to the position of that null. When all else fails: null objects.

     

    You can then effect the position of this null using sliders if you want and not have a brain aneurysm ok bye

    R
    Community Expert
    Rick GerardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 17, 2013

    Not there. Can only do that in the transform property. You should add a feature request.

    dissidently
    dissidentlyAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 17, 2013

    Has nobody ever requested this before?

      R
      Community Expert
      Rick GerardCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 18, 2013

      So the x and y of ANY property can be separated by this technique?

      How?

      If I drag a position property to a "single-stream" slider, how do I know if it's going to control the X or the Y?


      1. Add a slider to your layer by selecting Effect>Expression Controls>Slider Control

      2. Duplicate your slider

      Add this expression to the 2 axis value you want to control:

      x = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");

      y = effect("Slider Control 2")("Slider");

      [x, y]

      To avoid typing everything you can simply use the pickwhip like this:

      I just typed "y =" and then clicked the pickwhip and pointed to the Slider 2 value.

      Hope this helps. Unfortunately, you won't get any Bezzier curves you can animate this way. You could however, animate a null in X and another null in Y and then use the pickwhip to tie the x and y values to the nulls. This would give you Bezzier curves in the Comp window that you could adjust manually.

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