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Keyframing camera movement. Help please!
Hi, I’m new to using cameras and I’m having problems. Any help would be much appreciated.
I have two layers that I have denoted as 3D that I want the camera to crane up on along the Y axis. I have set the camera’s “auto-orientation” setting to “orient along path.” I have engaged the stopwatch for Position property on the camera. I create one keyframe at the bottom of the two layers that I want to crane up on. I then drag the Y axis direction of the Position property in the correct direction to make the camera crane up on the two layers to create a second keyframe for Position. I expected an animation of the camera craning slowly up the two layers; instead, the layers disappear altogether, no matter where the time marker is between the keyframes. This is extremely confusing. I am familiar with animating 2D layers and using keyframes in the 2D realm but this is stumping me.
Any suggestions or solutions would be EXTREMELY helpful. Thanks very much!
-Toby
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3 Replies
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hmmm not sure i understand the problem, but are you viewing multiple views when your moving your camera? it’s the clearest means of understanding what the camera is doing. if the layers disappear altogether, my first thought is that you need to pull your camera further back, as you might have your camera position to see ‘beyond’ the layers. Regardless, checking out multiple views so you can see your camera in action, rather than just the results, is the key
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From what you say, the only thing I can think of is that you shouldn’t have your camera set to orient along path. It sounds like you don’t have a path created. Either set it to “off” or “orient to point of interest”.
That’s why you can’t see your layers the camera is trying to orient to a non existant path.
good luck!
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Orient to path in this context means: the camera moves upwards, so it looks upwards, and it doesn’t see the cards because they’re in front of the camera, not above it.
Use no auto-orient or use a point of interest positioned inbetween the two cards if you want the cam to automatically tilt a bit while rising.
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