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Using parenting to animate

Using parenting to animate - After Effects Tutorial

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Using parenting to animate

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- [Instructor] In this movie we'll animate two lines of text using parenting with some help from the graph edit tool. Alright so I'm going to stop the playback, and go to the beginning. I'm going to rearrange my titles, so they will fit the same arrangement on screen, so and spoil will be the first one, and then yourself. I'm also going to take both of them by shift selecting both layers, and I'm going to pre-compose them. I'm going to name this title spoil yourself, and I'm going to make sure that I'm moving all the attributes into the new composition. I'm also going to choose the second option to adjust the composition duration to the time span of the selected layers, and I'm going to open this composition, because I want to animate what's inside, which are those two layers. So first we need to reformat them. This in an ongoing theme here in this course, so I'm going to select both of them, then I'm going to change my workspace to use the text workspace. This way I can get access to…

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