AE Flare Parenting
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- harlequino0
Pick whipping the flare center would work in certain cases but not here. I also have some camera zooming in and out in the footage, so I had to track Scale as well, but that's neither here nor there, and is another reason for the better solution to hand animate in the end.
The only thing with the parenting the flare center to the Null is that you might have to duplicate the Null, and move ALL keyframes relative to the flare location. Here's why-
Your Tracked Null mostly likeley originates in the center of the screen, and then moves around according to the tracked motion. Flare is playing the role of Sun, and is up in the top left corner. Parenting the flare center to Null 1 will place the flare in the center of the screen. So you have to duplicate to Null 2, select all keyframes, and move the whole tracking bit to the location of the sun. Then you can parent. However, that is IF the screen motion jives with the resulting motion of background elements, like trees, mountains, clouds, etc.