Chris & Trish Meyer

CMG Keyframes is a repository for columns, articles, and videos created by Trish & Chris Meyer of the subject of creating motion graphics using Adobe After Effects and other related programs. It also contains articles on typography, audio, and 3D, as well as links to relevant articles Chris & Trish have published elsewhere.

Trish & Chris Meyer are the founders of Crish Design (formerly known as CyberMotion), an award-winning motion graphic design studio that has recently relocated from Los Angeles to the Albuquerque area. Their design and animation work has appeared on shows and promos for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, HBO, PBS, and TLC; in opening titles for several movies including Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr. Ripley; at trade shows and press events for corporate clients ranging from Apple to Xerox; and in special venues encompassing IMAX, CircleVision, the NBC AstroVision sign in Times Square, and the four-block-long Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas.

In addition to their motion graphics work, Trish and Chris were among the original users of After Effects, and have written numerous books including "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" and "After Effects Apprentice" (both published by Focal Press). They speak regularly at conferences around the country, and perform custom training for studios. Both have backgrounds as musicians, and a close relationship between sound and picture informs much of their work.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

On Artbeats.com: Panning & Scanning

An update to the time-honored Anchor Point trick for moving around an image.

It’s great to have a source image that is bigger than the final frame you need, as it gives you additional flexibility to reframe it through position and scaling. You can also animate these parameters to fake pans and zooms. We’ve done this for ages with high-resolution still images; cameras such as the RED now allow you to do this with moving footage, even in hi-def projects.

The problem with this “panning and scanning” technique is that many use the Position parameter in programs such as After Effects to perform it. However, when you then change the Scale parameter as well, the image will appear to drift, as it does not scale around the center of your composition; it scales around the center of the now-repositioned source file. Therefore, you want to animate the Anchor Point - not Position - to perform these types of moves.

We just wrote an article for Artbeats.com going over this technique, including an extension where we use Position in conjunction with Anchor Point and Scale to push in and pull back around a focal point that may not be in the dead center of the frame. In this way, you can perform moves in After Effects that would have driven you crazy trying to perform in camera on the set.

Click here to download the PDF of “Pan and Scan” from Artbeats.com.

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