From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
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Parenting to nulls - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
Parenting to nulls
- [Instructor] Oftentimes, in After Effects, we want to have one layer inherit the transformations of another layer. The act of making one layer follow another is known as parenting, and it can make your workflow much more efficient. Through parenting, any layer can then pass down its animation to any of its child layers. Here, we'll look at parenting to other layers, as well as parenting to nulls, since they have the added benefit of not being renderable. In this example, I have layer one animating in scale from zero to 50%. And all these other layers are not moving along with it. And so if I wanted to make layer two, for instance, follow along with layer one. Well, traditionally, I would have to come here to layer two, and enable a Keyframe for the position and scale. And let's work backwards here, and I know that okay, looks like it's hovering over in this area. And then now I need to take my scale and make…
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