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3D Camera from 3D application help needed
Hello all, I have been wrestling with this for a day now and haven’t gotten the look I’m searching for. I am fairly new to using 3D camera in AE and even after extensive searches, haven’t seen an issue discussed which is similar to mine.
In a nutshell, here’s the scenario:
1. created a camera in 3ds Max which hovers and moves around a piece of paper laying flat on a table top. (simple enough)
2. I have successfully imported the camera data into AE. This camera data, of course, has keyframes at every frame, so setting up a POI or aligning the look at to a null object is moot, I believe.What I have been unable to do is align a new 3D layer in the composition so that the layer is positioned as the piece of paper was in 3ds Max. Another way to put it would be: I want to align the layer in 3D world space relative to the camera in AE at the same place as the paper in 3ds Max was in relation to the camera. Is that possible?
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another solution would be to just track the piece of paper and use a cornerpin.
when I’m aligning stuff up with a camera I find that adding another camera (think of it as a perspective view) into the scene helps a lot.
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My apologies for not responding to your posts sooner. I thought I’d receive and email informing me that a reply had posted.
To answer, I came to realize that I “thought” I had successfully imported a camera into AE from 3ds Max. This turned out not to be the case. To make a long story short, I purchased Max2AE. It’s the only way to go if you’re serious about using Max in AE, as far as I can tell.
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