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

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Using the expression pick whip

Using the expression pick whip - After Effects Tutorial

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

Start my 1-month free trial

Using the expression pick whip

- [Instructor] In the proceeding title for video and audio for designers with Creative Cloud, if you've watched that title, you'll know that you can parent objects to one another, and if you haven't I recommend that you do unless you feel comfortable with all of this so far. And if you do, awesome. Okay so we can parent things and just to show you here with the special effects layer and my chipping layer, if I chose to parent that to either the router or null one, I'll parent it to null one, it will now follow the animation properties of that particular layer. But that isn't going to get us very far at all. Okay, because it's just moving around like so above it, rather than being actually connected to it in some way. Just going to set that back to none. And what we're going to do is actually expand the chippings layer here. So our solid layer. And at this point, by the way, it's probably a good idea to hit the tilder or back tick key on your keyboard. When you're hovering over this…

Contents