• Adobe After Effects

  Camera Movements and Controls

  Posted by Haroon Asif on November 14, 2005 at 9:21 am

  how camera movements and controls are done in AE.

  Haroon Asif replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  November 15, 2005 at 4:36 am

  Read the manual.

  Read it again.

  Then do this:

  In your composition create a camera.
  Now create a null; make it a 3d layer.
  Parent your camera to the null.
  Animate a 360 rotation of the null’s y axis.
  Dance with joy.

  This is the best way to work with a camera in AE, you just move the null around and the camera follows it. You can still animate the camera, to make it move in and out, to look away, and to do other things.

  The “Great” stands for “Not-So-Great”
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  Haroon Asif

  November 15, 2005 at 11:35 am

  thanks buddy… is there is plugin used for Camera controls … their montions… like running through objects and paning and zoooming .. and etc. and growing objects

  HaROON
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  Michael Szalapski

  November 16, 2005 at 3:41 pm

  Why would you need a plugin?

  If you want the camera to pan, keyframe the camera’s rotation.
  If you want it to track, keyframe the null’s position.
  If you want it to move through objects, keyframe the null and/or camera’s position.

  If you want it to zoom…keyframe the zoom.

  Read the manual. Read the manual. Read the manual.

  And use the null trick.

  And toy with it.

  The “Great” stands for “Not-So-Great”
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  Haroon Asif

  November 17, 2005 at 11:22 am

  thanks buddy

  HaROON

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