Parent Layers & Properties in After Effects - AE Fundamentals

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In this After Effects Fundamentals lesson, you'll learn all about parenting. Parenting is a way to connect layers so a child layer inherits the animation of a parent layer. This can also be done with properties (as opposed to entire layers).

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In this video:
0:27 Parent Layers
2:54 Parent Properties
4:09 Nulls as Controllers

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