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Making a Video Wall in AE CS3
First off, I’m new to AE CS3 and have not worked with any earlier version. I’m tring to make a video wall. So I’m tring to duplicate the “Shine Video Wall in AE5.5” tutorial. When I open the project files, it creates a default camera. So when I look at the time lines it has two camers in it. The bottom one seems to not matter and the one up top seems to be the one I would be following.
Would this be a good tutorial to follow? Is the camera settings much different to setup in AE CS3 from AE 5.5?When I tried to duplicate the video wall with my own picture, I can’t seem to get the camera to flow like it did in the tutorial, but that may very well be do to user error. I just need to know if the camera manipulation is different.
Thanks for any help you can give.
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Older versions of AE 5.5 had a “Default camera” that could be panned, zoomed, and rotated. It wasn;t an actual layer, but it was there. It could not be animated.
Newer versions like, CS3, don’t have this, and the defualt 3D view, without a camera, can’t be panned, zoomed…etc.
However, because, in old version, you could move the defualt camera, they had to find a way to make it possible to open old files in AE CS3 with the 3D view still in-tact. So, if you open an Old AE file in a new version, it has a “Defualt AE 5.5 Camera” (or whatever it’s called).
You may want to delete the camera called “Default AE 5.5 Camera” and see if that get’s rid of the problem. AE will try to render the active camera, and depending on the stack order and in and ouit points, it may be seeing the wrong camera.
Aharon Rabinowitz
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Aharon thanks for your response. I do appreciate it.
The problem I was having was doing my own project following the Shine Video Wall. I couldn’t get the camera to move correctly. So I spent the weekend following another tutorial “Taking a wild 3D ride” by Bjorn Sjostrom, to get use to and learning to use the 3D camera. Following this tutorial helped me learn how to use the tool. I then used what I learned and was able to finish my version of the Shine Video Wall.
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