From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 15 Creating a Sports Opening Title

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Grouping layers

Grouping layers

We have opened up Main Comp 2*starter, and in the previous movie we set it to 4 Views. Feel free to set it to something different such as 2 Views - Horizontal, or if you like, you can even go all the way down to one 1 View and just switch your 3D View pop-up to change what you are looking at any given moment. I'm going to work in 2 Views Horizontal right now. I will make my Right View my Active Camera, my Left View the View from the top of my world. These two video walls form two faces of an imaginary cube. Ideally, I want to spin this imaginary cube on its imaginary center. I am going to select the Glider layer, which is one video wall, then hold down Command on Mac, or Ctrl on Windows, to click on Windsurfer and select that as well. What I can start to do with this composition, I placed the anchor points for both of those video walls on their corners to make it easy for me to align them to the exact same point. I can use this positional information to help me determine where to put…

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