Parenting Possibilities in AE

Mathew Fuller covers some basics of parenting for layout, animation, and 3D in his After Effects tutorial video, Parenting Possibilities in AE (via Lester Banks). An earlier version is embedded below.

There's more on parenting in Parenting and Nesting, an excerpt from After Effects Apprentice by Trish & Chris Meyer on the Focal Press After Effects Microsite, and of course in AE Help in Parent and child layers. Going deeper, Todd Kopriva has several posts on other informative video tutorials on parenting by Robert Powers, Andrew Kramer, Chris Zwar, Dave Scotland, and Tiny Inventions. In addition, Harry Frank showed parenting tips for camera moves in Drifting Title Sequence tutorial.