Return-Path: Received: from mail-bk0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4745490 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:23:33 +0200 Received: by bkcjm19 with SMTP id jm19so527442bkc.28 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:26:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=i5F93OPjMlOWvNjNp7T2w1CKBYmNGmXx84eUvxjGJfs=; b=JiSRW6HT8NIb5Cz4hC0fo3vs7DsSYaGG4nBUWlRN22IHcbc0zZcOos67fzgIGU+4Gv sjQh58AKPJ+vohN4r5V7sYPtJj5XlmG9moHBJ6FAq2ihbfLJ804lyidN+F3RNDu9A93J ETgd0nhENALTPQ7e3ePpKYp4SUZrgZpQ8MBHTDSOI5XLiDx84DifBVLVSOB9Vs0163pC qYbvE2z8q4W9LarKLjwvjqlrYNVpS1+LHYMIIQ8rTcJoRCRgdHPkDLUbi9gciwIiTjuj wuMlLqAMb76pG4pHaCpjIOKmYqiYvMO1nl+2Yyx7wnMB/Xx+czeTYXz1p0P9K8ERPLu3 d6XQ== Received: by 10.204.156.155 with SMTP id x27mr13539669bkw.84.1339597575448; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:26:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.168.73 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:25:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Byron Nash Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:25:55 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Centering Shapes from Text To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175df1fca0674504c25b5dbd --0015175df1fca0674504c25b5dbd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 When I create a shape layer from text it puts the center point where the anchor point was on the text layer. If I select the path and move it around or center it, none of the transform values change. Is there a way to have the anchor point automatically set to the bounding box of the new shape layer? I have a lot of text to work with and am trying to avoid having to eyeball it. I demand numerical precision!! ;-) Byron --0015175df1fca0674504c25b5dbd Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When I create a shape layer from text it puts the center point where the an= chor point was on the text layer. If I select the path and move it around o= r center it, none of the transform values change. Is there a way to have th= e anchor point automatically set to the bounding box of the new shape layer= ? I have a lot of text to work with and am trying to avoid having to eyebal= l it. I demand numerical precision!! =A0;-)

Byron
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