Parental Controls

Improved parenting in After Effects.

Parent to the actual path, shape, or text of a layer.

How it works

Step 1. Select a child layer

Select any layer in After Effects that has a parent.

Step 2. Add controls

Pick a horizontal and/or vertical constraint for the child layer.

Step 3. Freely resize parent layers

Now you can freely change or keyframe the path, shape, or text of the parent layer and the position of the child layer will adjust automatically.