From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Adding a null object

Adding a null object - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2

Start my 1-month free trial

Adding a null object

“

- [Instructor] Just like solid layers, null objects are incredibly useful. As they're name may suggest, null objects has nothing. And that's right, it has no properties at all, nothing visible that you can see. But just like solids, or almost like solids, you can attach different things to them. Very, very useful in special effects and compositing an animation. There's massive number of uses for them. I'm gonna do little bit of housekeeping in this file just for a moment. What I'm going to do is highlight the position properties of the router layer just there. And, I'm going to reduce the lengths of the Chippings special effects that I've got here, attached to the solid layer above it, so it's well inside that movement, because I basically don't want the chips there for the whole time. So just, they're just going to appear when the router's at a certain place, and then disappear as it leaves the screen. So, I'm just gonna slide that one up like so. Okay, so let's add a null object…

Contents