Synchronizing motion for two layers

Ok. I'm more than a little frustrated trying to get this to work. Any help would be most appreciated.
I've got two clips. One is a still image serving as my background. the other is an illustration of a man standing stationary in the foreground. The layer of the man is on top of the background layer.
My problem occurs when I zoom in on the standing man. It is extremely difficult to get the scale and key frames for both layers to sync up. That is it is proving difficult to make both the man and background appear to be inhabiting the same "space" rather than independent layers.
Is there a way to lock the two layers together so that changes made to the motion tabs in the scale and center of one layer are the same for both? I'm sure there is but just can't seen to figure it out on my own.
Thanks,
Greg

Hi -
On the bottom left corner of the timeline, press Toggle Clip Keyframes or type Option-T.
This will display the keyframes for a clip on the timeline. The blue line is the motion keyframes, the green is any keyframes you have applied to filters.
With those keyframes now displaying on the timeline, the Playhead will snap to them if you have snapping turned on (type "n") and it should make it easy for you to place you keyframes to match keyframes you have placed on other clips.
MtD

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I decided to trash the project file that I've been struggling with, sending a lot of hours down the drain, but it felt like the right thing to do. Then:
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I'm french, and I already posted a question a few times ago, on this forum and I was very satisfied with your quick answers, so I come ask again a little question...
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