From the course: VFX Techniques: Digital Set Extension
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Parenting additional layers - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: VFX Techniques: Digital Set Extension
Parenting additional layers
We successfully applied the motion tracking data to building A. Now building A follows as if it was shot with the original camera. Let's take a look. Now thanks to the adjustment of the offsets to the anchor points, building A only appears on the right side in the right window. There's nothing behind the left window. We have another render we can put back there. Now we could go ahead and apply the motion tracking data a second time; however, a different solution would allow us just to use the parent menu instead, which is right here. Let's give that a try. I'll go back to File > Import File, and this time I'll select Building B. This image sequence starts at Frame 60, so I'll select the Frame 60 frame. And click import. I'm going to drop this on top of building A. Now this is designed to start at frame 60 so I'm going to go to frame 60 and drag this bar over so it matches up with that timeline. I can go ahead and go to the parent menu beside building B and change that to building A…
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