Relative positioning animation preset?

Hello friends,
I am familiar with saving an animation preset with all the attributes... but how do I apply an animation/positioning preset, which applys to layers relatively to their original position?
The Problem: when I save an animation preset, it saves the start position and hard sets the layer to that exact position when I apply the preset.
My wish: I want to relatively apply positioning effects.
Any ideas? I would appreciate every help, thank you!

Hello Rick, that is a great workaround, I will try this. I see a little problem with objects that "lean" out of the canvas. If I then wrap them in a null and animate the null I would only move the cropped objects ;-)

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