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Summary: Make your After Effects files spring to life! Learn tips for creating animated files on different layers using Adobe After Effects software in this free video editing tutorial from a film production professor.
John Carstarphen is an experienced independent filmmaker, screenwriter, animator and teacher. His work as a writer/director has been seen in international film festivals including...read more
"And now let's move her. Which way should we move her? Probably left to right. And she really should be pretty much out of the way at this point, so let's take the X axis of her layer and just move her out of the way. So the net effect is that we're doing a sort of dolly and zoom at the same time. We're kind of dollying to the right or the effect is that we're dollying to the right, things are moving past us out of the way, and we come upon the building. Now the building should move too, otherwise the whole perspective is thrown off, so let's animate the building quickly."
eHow Article: Animating Layers in Adobe After Effects