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  Multiple Cameras in a Comp?

  Posted by Dale Kutzera on July 2, 2012 at 11:46 pm

  Any tips on working with multiple cameras in a comp? I have a main camera and set up a wide shot of the scene…then sent it to the render queue. Then I added other cameras for closer angles. Each required adjusting the position of some elements. I sent each of these shots to the queue. It will take some time to render, but I’m interested to see if each queue’d shot will remember the arrangement of elements when it was created. I’m not sure if that information is remembered when a shot is sent to the render queue.

  John Cuevas replied 14 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  July 3, 2012 at 5:55 am

  Only the top camera layer in a composition will be rendered. Submitting the same composition multiple times to the queue won’t get around this, when you start the process only the top camera’s view will be rendered.

  You can render a composition, switch off a camera, then render again.

  Also you can use this “top layer” scheme to your advantage by layering cameras on top of one another for cuts from one to the other.

  Depending on how your composition is set up it may also be possible to nest your main composition inside several different render compositions, enable the “collapse transformations” switch on the pre-comp and create unique camera layers/views in each of the render comps. Then submit these separately to the render queue.

  More info on collapse transformations:

  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/3d-layers.html#3d_layer_interactions_render_order_and_collapsed_transformations

  Darby Edelen
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  Dale Kutzera

  July 3, 2012 at 9:31 pm

  Thanks. Yes, I noticed that just the top camera renders. I’d hoped to stack up a bunch of renders and then let them all crunch overnight. Looks like I’ll have to do them one at a time. I’ll have to sort through your last graph about collapsed transformation and pre-comps. My head is spinning.
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  John Cuevas

  July 4, 2012 at 12:22 am

  If you are trying to set up multiple renders that is based off one comp, you might want look at the script True Comp Duplicator at AE Scripts. It makes original duplicates of your comp and all precomps. Really handy.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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