From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
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Parenting basics - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
Parenting basics
- [Instructor] If you have access to the exercise files that came with these videos open up project AEA Parenting 101.aep. If instead you're following along using our book After Effects Apprentice Second Edition we're in lesson six, parenting and nesting, and open up project 06A parenting.aep. I've already queued up a RAM preview and I'll press zero on the numeric keypad, and you see we have three simple layers. We have a background animation of these lines, we have an animation of a rotating globe, and we have a circle of text. Our plan here is we want to make the text rotate around the globe, and have the two of them scale up towards us as a unit. Now we could animate these object independently, but a better way to go about it is to parent them together, so we can treat them as a group. I'm going to press Home to return to the start of my composition, I'll select Text and Shift + click on planet, so they're both selected, I'll press S to reveal their Scale, Shift + R to reveal…
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