Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

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2. Choose Window > Create Nulls From Paths.jsx.
3. Expand the Stem layer in the Timeline panel, and then expand Contents, Shape 1, Path 1.
4. Select Path.

You must select a path in the Timeline panel in order to create a null using the options in the
Create Nulls From Paths panel.


5. Click Points Follow Nulls in the Create Nulls From Paths panel.

After Effects creates two nulls, corresponding to the two points on the stem path. The null
objects appear in gold in the Composition panel, and as layers named Stem: Path 1 [1.1.0] and
Stem: Path 1 [1.1.1] in the Timeline panel. You only need the null for the top point.


Note
After you create the nulls, you can close the Create Nulls From Paths panel, or you
can leave it open.

6. Select the null that corresponds to the bottom point of the stem, and delete it.
7. In the Timeline panel, drag the pick whip ( ) from the Stem: Path 1 [1.1.1] layer to the
Falling Star layer.

8. Move the current-time indicator across the time ruler to see how the stem connects to the
flower.
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