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Camera Movement
are there any expressions that can create random motion of a 35mm camera around its pivot point in after effects?
i am fairly new to how to create smooth natural camera movement within a composition and was wondering if anyone maybe knew of a website that lists different movement expressions that you can just copy and paste over from web to after effects.
hopefully i will soon be able to do this without the help from others but at the minute i am still a novice!!!!!!
cheers for taking the time to read this and thanks for any type of reply.
Ollie
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1 Reply
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Rotating a camera around its pivot is fairly simple with a wiggle() expression applied to the camera’s orientation property. However, for this to work you need to turn off the camera’s auto-orient to point of interest by right clicking on the Camera layer and going to Transform > Auto-Orient > Off.
Then apply this to the orientation property:
f = 3;
a = 1;
wiggle(f,a);You can change the frequency (f) for a different feel, lower it for more of a ‘floating camera’ feel or raise it for a more frenetic ‘handheld’ feel. The amplitude (a) should probably remain quite low as the Orientation is measured in degrees and only a small change in degrees is very noticeable.
There are some pretty cool camera expressions out there, some of them developed by Dan Ebberts and I believe available on his website: https://www.motionscript.com
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA
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