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Earlier today I had successfully tracked a point on my clip, set it as a parent for my null object and had all my composition layers parented to that as well. I had no issues (all objects moved to the motion tracker) and somewhere down the line some of my clips got deleted. I opened a new project, successfully tracked the same point, but now no object will move with it. My null object doesn't and neither do my composition layers. Anything that is parented to the null object will follow accordingly, but I've tried everything and nothing will move along with my main clip. Any help would be great (I've been at this for a couple hours now and it's gotten pretty frustrating...)
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GoinHam said:
Earlier today I had successfully tracked a point on my clip, set it as a parent for my null object and had all my composition layers parented to that as well.
You are either not explaining your workflow using the right terms and the right steps or you did not "parent" the attach point to a null because you can't do that. Are you new to AE or AE's motion tracking tools? Deselect all layers in your comp and press the U key twice to look for modified properties for all layers. If you do
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Nobody can tell you much without knowing your exact settings or having screenshots at hand. You could simply have applied the tracker data to a wrong element or your parenting chain might have a break somewhere. We don't even know your version of AE, too, in case this might be one of thoise dreaded cache/ preview issues. Therefore much more info is required.
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GoinHam said:
Earlier today I had successfully tracked a point on my clip, set it as a parent for my null object and had all my composition layers parented to that as well.
You are either not explaining your workflow using the right terms and the right steps or you did not "parent" the attach point to a null because you can't do that. Are you new to AE or AE's motion tracking tools? Deselect all layers in your comp and press the U key twice to look for modified properties for all layers. If you do not see any keyframes in your "null" layer then you did not follow the right motion tracking workflow.
Standard workflow for motion tracking:
From there you can use parenting to attach additional layers to the "Target" layer. This is not the workflow you described, but it is the workflow you must have used the first time.
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Thank you very much. I did not select "edit target" the second time around. I apologize for my terminology, I am new to After Effects
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tough crowd here...
Try making sure either both or neither are 3d layers