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Active Camera/ Wiggle Problem (Help)
Hey there how’s it going?
I have a interesting problem.
What I did was give my created camera a wiggle expression, [ wiggle (2,10,2) ] to be exact. and bad the position follow a null object so that the point of interest would not needed to be changed every time.
Now, when I export my film. It exports through my Active Camera where NOTHING happens even though if I tell AE to preview the comp with the custom created Camera it’s fine…
Is it possible to pick which camera should be the active camera? Or maybe which camera the comp should be exported with?
Help me out, please!
Much appreciated!
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7 Replies
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The camera that is on top in the hierarchy is the active camera
so just put it above the other one or delete the one you’re not using.
but the wiggle you describe has 3 numbers? or is it (2,10.2)?
a normal wiggle only discribes (freq,amount in every direction) -
AE can only render the active camera view. No ifs or buts on this. Also, if you have two cameras, the camera at the top at a given point in time is the one that is rendered.
The wiggle has more than two parameters although two works well for most cases. SO, the Expression is fine.
I can’t explain why the wiggle isn’t kicking in. Perhaps you should apply the wiggle to the Null.
HTH
RoRKbroadcastGEMs – AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe After Effects Project Files – Now Available).
Adobe After Effects Training in Asia.
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Thank you all for the responses.
The problem is not that the wiggle is not working.
The problem is that the Active Camera doesn’t follow the camera I created.
Which I guess is happening because I called the Camera to follow the position of the null object and applied a wiggle to the camera.
When I view everything in Camera 1 (The Camera I created) everything is fine. BUT when I export of view in Active Camera. Nothing movies.
Hopefully someone has an answer!
Thank you again for all the effort.
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Dude, if you created a camera then the Active Camera is based on the camera that you creted. If you didn’t crete a camera for the composition then the Active Camera view is the default camera that AE uses to view the 3D layers in the comp. What this means is that there is always a camera regardless if you manually created a camera or not.
So we can safely assume that you created a camera in the composition and applied a wiggle to its position and then parented it to a Null. Is this correct?
And do not use the File>Export feature. Instead, use Composition>MakeMovie. Let us klnow if this works.
Cheers
RoRKbroadcastGEMs – AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe After Effects Project Files – Now Available).
Adobe After Effects Training in South East Asia.
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That’s the thing! I created a camera but AE is choosing NOT to follow that one camera I have placed at the top of the composition.
“So we can safely assume that you created a camera in the composition and applied a wiggle to its position and then parented it to a Null. Is this correct? ”
This is fully correct.
The reason why I exported in that manner is because I wanted to send someone the file to show them how my progress and even if I Composition > Make Movie it, the same problem occurs where it follow the Active Camera and not the Camera I created.
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Try restarting the machine and see if the problem persists.
What you’re describing doesn’t seem to be the way AE works. If things are still funky after a system reboot, then I suggest that you take a few snapshots and post it for us to have a look at how you’ve setup the timeline, the active camera view and where the Expression is placed.
I forgot to ask earlier if RAM previews gave you the wiggly effect.
Cheers
RoRKbroadcastGEMs – AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe After Effects Project Files – Now Available).
Adobe After Effects Training in South East Asia.
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Thanks for the help everyone.
End up that AE was just being crazy.
I made a new camera and put in the settings and everything was fine again… this took about ten times though.
THANK YOU AGAIN! God bless.
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