camera orbit move grabbing layers

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

AS far as I know, AE doesn;t do that. I don;t think it;s actually orbiting around the layer.

Most lilely, the layer that it appears to be orbiting is at the XYZ coordinates 0 – right at the center of the AE universe.

Try moving you’re camera’s point of interest to the point in 3D space you want it to orbit around.

If on the other hand, you don;t want the camera to orbit anything, and just want it to freely rotate (as if it were on a tripod), then select your camera and then go to the menus:

Layer > Transform > Auto Orient, and set it to Off

If you want to get better control of the camera’s point of interest, check out this tutorial:

https://cowcast.creativecow.net/after_effects/episodes/CC_Nulls_POD_iPod_Sm.mp4

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[Darby Edelen]

I’m going to cover the basic pitfalls of such a project:

1. Make sure you have a camera layer in the comp (obvious, but sometimes forgotten)

2. Make sure your composition view is on ‘Active Camera’ and not something like ‘Front’

3. Try selecting the Orbit Tool from the tools palette (or hit ‘c’ until you get to it)

4. Make sure all of the layers you want changing in perspective are 3D layers (if the background is a 2D layer the camera and its properties will have no effect on its appearance)

Sorry for all the basic suggestions, but I just wanted a starting point for us to work on figuring out what’s wrong =)

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA

[Nate Tull]

Thank you so much. I love AE but Ive got so much to learn about it.

[Nate Tull]

Basic is what I need, Ive been in Motion and Boris a bit and fell in love with AE but still very new to it….thanks for all input!