Answers.Body: <p>You can move the anchor point of a layer, but this may upset scale, rotation or masking. There is a much simpler and very intuitive way to do it.</p>
  
  <p>Click on the position property to select all keyframes. Park the playhead on one of these keyframes (use j or k keys to do this). Now if you move one of the keyframes they all move. If you don't park the playhead on an existing keyframe then you will just create a new keyframe at the current time and leave the others unchanged.</p>
  
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    <p>Tip: If you need to have the playhead at a particular time to see the
    relative position and there is no keyframe there, just create a
    temporary one at the current time.</p>
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Answers.Body: <p>And furthermore there is parenting. You parent your image to a null. Copy the null and image over, and set the null in a new position. The image will move relative to the null's position </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I've found that using the Anchor Point is a great way to do this. The position will not copy over (be sure to just copy the anchor point animation), and it will instead animate relative to the position.</p>
  
  <p>I usually do it the reverse of this. I set my position using the Anchor Point, and then animate using keyframes on the Position.</p>
  
  <p>I generally don't use the "Animate" button on text in AE, though, so this might not work as you're expecting. </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>There are several ways.  You can use an adjustment layer to apply to the layers above it or you can nest a composition such that the movements of that composition apply to everything in the source.  I most often use the nested composition approach as it lets me work on things separately, but it is a bit more of a pain for making changes while looking at the final output, so it isn't ideal for every situation.</p>
  
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Body: <p>When I add text to an after effects project there's an "animate" triangle I can click which lets me animate the position of the text from 0.0, 0.0. This is great because if I duplicate that layer and move it around the text animates relatively from its new position no problem. </p>
  
  <p>I'd like to do this with an image but I can't work out how to do it. Animating the position of the image based on key frames is fine but when I try to duplicate and move the animated image around it animates from it's original position. </p>
  
  <p>Is there any easy way to do this? </p>
  
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ThreadText: # How do I animate an image based on relative position in after effects?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-08-25)
  
  When I add text to an after effects project there's an "animate" triangle I can click which lets me animate the position of the text from 0.0, 0.0. This is great because if I duplicate that layer and move it around the text animates relatively from its new position no problem.
  
  I'd like to do this with an image but I can't work out how to do it. Animating the position of the image based on key frames is fine but when I try to duplicate and move the animated image around it animates from it's original position.
  
  Is there any easy way to do this?
  
  **Tags:** after-effects
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-01-18. Score: 2
  
  You can move the anchor point of a layer, but this may upset scale, rotation or masking. There is a much simpler and very intuitive way to do it.
  
  Click on the position property to select all keyframes. Park the playhead on one of these keyframes (use j or k keys to do this). Now if you move one of the keyframes they all move. If you don't park the playhead on an existing keyframe then you will just create a new keyframe at the current time and leave the others unchanged.
  
  > Tip: If you need to have the playhead at a particular time to see the
  > relative position and there is no keyframe there, just create a
  > temporary one at the current time.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-02-17. Score: 1
  
  And furthermore there is parenting. You parent your image to a null. Copy the null and image over, and set the null in a new position. The image will move relative to the null's position
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2013-08-26. Score: 0
  
  I've found that using the Anchor Point is a great way to do this. The position will not copy over (be sure to just copy the anchor point animation), and it will instead animate relative to the position.
  
  I usually do it the reverse of this. I set my position using the Anchor Point, and then animate using keyframes on the Position.
  
  I generally don't use the "Animate" button on text in AE, though, so this might not work as you're expecting.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2013-08-25. Score: 0
  
  There are several ways. You can use an adjustment layer to apply to the layers above it or you can nest a composition such that the movements of that composition apply to everything in the source. I most often use the nested composition approach as it lets me work on things separately, but it is a bit more of a pain for making changes while looking at the final output, so it isn't ideal for every situation.
  
  
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