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Reposition the anchor point

Reposition the anchor point - After Effects Tutorial

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Reposition the anchor point

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- [Instructor) In this week's tip I'll show you a cool way to reposition the Anchor Point of a layer after you animate it as well as solve couple of issues with vector layers in After-Effects. So this is what we are working with. Half-baked animation that it can definitely be a bit better. So I'll pause the playback and I'll go to two seconds here. And I'll select the border layer for starters. And this layer if I'll press U to show the key frames as scale animation key frames. So one of the ways to work is to select the pan behind in parentheses, Anchor Point tool. Or you can press the letter Y and then you can just move this to wherever you want. Now since we have scale animation this is not going to affect the animation. Actually it's going to look much better. So from the beginning, now it looks like it is in the correct place. Another way to work is using the same method. So this time I'm switching to…

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