Video: Layer Placement in Adobe After Effects

Manipulate layers to create the files you need. Learn how to use advanced layer features in Adobe After Effects software in this free video editing tutorial from a film production professor.

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And so the further back we go, the further physically we are away from these objects. And so that's why it's helpful to have different views of what you're looking at because now we can see where our images are and we can move them accordingly, so that's the antenna on top of the building, this is the building, and we're going to move the building way back even further into the distance, so we create some separation. We're going to - we don't need to actually move the antenna because we just have the illusion that the antenna's on top of the building, so we'll just leave it there. And the building is further back, the trees are where they're supposed to be, our model is where she's supposed to be. Okay, now I'm going to move her back just a little bit. Now you see what's happened here is that because we didn't move the antenna back as far as the building, her head went through the antenna graphic, and now her head is behind the antennas. So let's select the antenna targa, and move that back. I thought we could get away with not moving it but let's go ahead and move that back, and it gives us a more of a real world scale anyway. So, now it's on top of the building and we can move her without fear of having her go through another image.

Layer Placement in Adobe After Effects

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