From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
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Working with effect point paths - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
Working with effect point paths
Earlier in this lesson, we played around with effects like the Lens Flare and showed that it was possible to reposition the flare center. Whenever an effect has a position value like this, it's referred to as an effect point. You can animate effect points, but how you do it is a little bit tricky. If you worked your way through the Advanced Animation lesson, you may remember that you can edit position motion paths directly in the Composition panel. However, the anchor point path that you had to edit in the Layer panel. Well, it's the same thing with effect points. Even though you can pick them up and move them directly in the Comp panel, if you want to animate them, you can only see their path in the Layer panel. Now earlier, we advocated putting the lens flare on its own solid, not on the footage you wish to treat. So if I want to see my motion path in context with my footage, I want to see my Layer panel and my Comp panel at the same time. Well, that's easy enough. I am going to…
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