Can you render the front camera view?

[Mark Young]

Thanks for the reply,

Unfortunately the effect I’m looking for doesn’t work with a camera (or no camera) in the comp. I want to get a render that has no perspective (as if you were looking at a front elevation on a blueprint).

Even if I have no camera in the comp the view still shows some perspective.

[Travis Roop]

I was thinking the same thing, use a Screen Cap program, snapX for mac is what I have, then capture the comp in AE while it plays in the desired camera mode.

Travis Roop
Editor
bitMAX Hollywood
troop@bitmax.net

[Alejandro Torres]

there’s a great free plugin from obvious FX called copy image.

https://www.obviousfx.com/products/copyimage/copyimage.php

Install it and use it (frame by frame) and you can avoid the cropping that the screen grab would force you to.

Hope it helps!

Regards

Alejandro

http://www.fxtudio.com

[Mark Young]

Thanks for the help guys, man I wish Adobe would just have a render view option like most 3d apps!

[Darby Edelen]

[Mark Young] “Unfortunately the effect I’m looking for doesn’t work with a camera (or no camera) in the comp. I want to get a render that has no perspective (as if you were looking at a front elevation on a blueprint).”

You can’t render the Front view. You can, however, create a camera with a ridiculously long focal length (zoom) that would almost eliminate perspective. You could link the camera’s Z position to its zoom:

x = thisComp.width / 2;
y = thisComp.height / 2;
z = -cameraOption.zoom;
[x,y,z]

Then keep increasing the zoom value until it looks close enough… or AE crashes (;

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Tim West]

How about previewing this at the highest res and then saving the preview?

[Tim West]

(just tried this and AFX will not allow you to save the front view preview, needs to be the active camera)

[John Breslin]

This is a bit late, but you could just save the RAM preview.

[John Breslin]

Nevermind

[Bendik Ramm]

Not a perfect solution but an easy workaround: if you move the camera far away and zoom in on your model there will be next to no perspective distortion. It helps to manually enter the values of position and zoom to have an “exact” position (especially when you use simple geometries like cubes etc.).

Hope that helps.