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Jessariah67
Jessariah67
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March 1, 2019
Question

Centering transitions on layers?

  • March 1, 2019
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Hey all.

Sorry, this seems like it should be easy, but I'm battling with it.

I want to reveal layers with a "barn door" transition, but the transition is always centered on the entire comp. I remember once having to mve the center point of the transition for a clock wipe, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it with a barn door. Right now, I'm using a comp with two rectangular shapes that scale in from either outside edge and using it as an alpha matte, but I know there has to be a better way.

Thanks for any help!

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 1, 2019

The Barn Doors Animation Preset should be applied to a layer. Changing the anchor point or position will have no effect on the animation preset. It works on the layer size, not the comp size. Are you applying the preset to an adjustment layer?

There is no Transition "Barn Door" but all of the transitions in the Effects Menu also work on layer size.

If you can't figure it out we need a screenshot with the modified properties of the layer or layers giving you problems revealed. Just select the layer, press uu then PrintScreen and paste to the forum.

Jessariah67
Jessariah67Author
Known Participant
March 1, 2019

barn.png

I am dragging this directly onto the layers. For some reason, I wasn't completely able to recreate, but here you can see that the same transition placed on the text layer ("Gift Guide") at the same point is doing the transition across the entire comp (not just the layer).

split.png

They are both at the far left edge of a 1920x1080 comp.

Jessariah67
Jessariah67Author
Known Participant
March 1, 2019

And if I add another text layer toward the right, the same thing happens - the transition is being applied to cover the width of the whole comp - not just the layer.

split2.png

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