How Do You Center The ANCHOR POINT in After Effects?

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Are you starting to learn the basics of how to use After Effects? Well in this video, we'll be covering one of the most essential elements you need to know in order to correctly animate the rotation, scale and positions of your layers - the Anchor Point!
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Selection tool: V
Rectangle tool: Q
Pan behind (anchor point) tool: Y
Position properties: P
Rotation properties: R
Scale properties: S
Anchor point properties: A
Undo: Cmd + Z... (Windows: Ctrl + Z)
Hold Cmd... (Windows: Ctrl) to snap anchor point to a corner or centre of shape
✅ VIDEO SUMMARY
To alter the position of your Anchor point simply select the Pan Behind (Anchor Point) Tool, for which the shortcut is "Y" and move the Anchor point. You can animate the position of your Anchor point by bringing up the "Anchor Point" option under "Transform" for your layer, or pressing "A" on your keyboard. Press on the stopwatch to start animating!
To adjust the defaults for centering the Anchor point to the middle of a shape, go to "After Effects", "Preferences" and then under "General" select "Center Anchor Point in New Shape Layers". We also cover one or two simple shortcuts for the Anchor point in this video!
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🕒 TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What Is an anchor point?
1:34 Move an anchor point
2:30 Center an anchor point
2:52 Default anchor point
3:51 How to use an anchor point
4:55 Animate anchor points
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