How To Animate Anchor Point Property in After Effects

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**Description:
**This tutorial will show you animate the Anchor Point transform property in Adobe After Effects CC 2025 to create a 3D Camera Style Pan & Zoom animation.

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**Keyboard Shortcuts:
**Anchor Point: A
Position: P
Scale: S
Pan Behind Tool: Y
Selection Tool: V
Easy Ease: F9

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00:14 Moving Anchor Point
00:39 Anchor Point Transform Property (A)
01:05 Pan Behind Tool (Y)
01:23 Changing Anchor Point Property Value
01:43 Zeroing Out Position
02:09 Zeroing Out Anchor Point
03:05 Animation Example
03:53 Open Layer
04:37 Anchor Point Path
04:54 Add Keyframes For Position + Anchor
05:56 Animating By Dragging Anchor Point
06:35 Add Easy Ease (F9)
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**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2025 (Click To Try or Buy)

How To Animate Anchor Point Transform Property:

1. Create New Composition
2. Add Still Image (bigger than Comp Size)
3. Double-click on Footage Layer to open in Footage Layer Panel
4. Go to the bottom of Layer Panel and change View to ‘Anchor Point Path’
5. Drag CTI to the beginning of the Timeline
6. Tap P for Position Property
7. Tap Shift + S to also bring up Scale
8. Click the Stopwatch next to Position & Scale to add keyframes
9. Drag CTI forward in Time
10. Tap V for Selection Tool
11. Go to Layer Panel and click and drag Anchor Point to move footage
12. Increase or Decrease Scale as necessary
13. Move CTI forward in time and repeat moving Anchor Point in Footage Layer Panel
14. Select all keyframes
15. Tap F9 to add Easy Ease
16. Tap Spacebar to Preview