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Anchor point grouping

Anchor point grouping - After Effects Tutorial

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Anchor point grouping

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Now, when we left this animation, the range selector was moving one word at a time, but now I'd like to animate scale and rotation, so let's see how that's going to work--and I will introduce a few new concepts for you. First, I will remove the Position offset, so that the title is just fading on one word at a time, and that will keep it a little simpler. I will also twirl up the Advanced section since we are done with that, and I will add Property > Scale, and add Property > Rotation. I will increase Scale to a large amount. And although the selection is moving word by word, each character is scaling around its own individual anchor point. If I set Rotation to 1 revolution, each character is also rotating around its own individual anchor point. So how do we fix that? Well, that's where the More Options section comes in. Twirl down More Options and the first section, Anchor Point Grouping, also has a menu for Character, Word, Line, or All. If we set it to Word, now each word has its…

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