• Adobe After Effects

  move camera or comp?

  Posted by Mintyfresh on April 2, 2006 at 11:03 pm

  i’ve been doing an animation that requires a camera to follow the action of an animating stroke (think nyc subway map). at each ‘node’ of the stroke an animation happens (text wipes on/off, images pop up etc..) is it generally advisable to animate the camera flying over the comp? or actually moving the comp below a static camera. the camera stays 90deg over the comp at all times. also, should this just be in one giant comp? or should i find some way to split it up? it really should look like a seamless journey across a map.

  thanks!

  Mike Clasby replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mike Clasby

  April 3, 2006 at 2:47 am

  These two 5 minute AE Camera tuts from Rick Gerard might help, especially the first. The cameras are not at 90 degrees to the map as you plan to do (they look down the map on a fly-over) but that should be easy to fix.

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly1/index.html

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