Complex Camera Moves

[Richie Grasso]

thats a good idea. tons of control.

[Jonathan Alexander]

Sound like a good setup, could you show a timeline window or somehow display this setup? I almost follow you, but don’t quite get it all. Thanks, if you don’t mind showing some of your secrets.

–Jonathan

[John Mcclary]

Here’s some advice from the best – Chris and Trish
https://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.jhtml?articleId=181503684

They also describe a more advanced setup in the newest DV magazine. Plus the assistant in AE7….

John McClary

[Chris Smith]

I have no secrets 😉

1. null_CamPosition
2. null_CamRotation (Parent = null_CamPosition)
3. null_CamShake (Parent = null_CamRotation)
4. Camera (Parent = null_CamShake)

I do this so I am never commited to any keyframing that is done, I can still offset things how I wish. For example for the cam to vibrate, it uses up the cam’s position parameter. But if the vibrate is a parent of another null, it moves first from the first null, then it adds vibration to it.

Also if you have rotation on it’s own null, for example, the rotation null can be the camera’s general aiming direction as it moves through space (from the PosNull). But then you still want to override the camera angle to look at something for a moment or to offset it temporarily, then you can still key the camera’s actual rotation and it won’t effect the rotation you already have from the RotNull. Or if your PosNull had a good animation path, but you just think it should be tweaked in space because it’s not quite the right spot, instead of moving all your keys, simply drag the camera layer around (Since it doesn’t have keys itself, it just rides along).

Like when I do a motion track, I paste the track data to a null and not to the video layer itself. Then I parent the video layer to the null. This way dealing with offsetting the layer is as easy as grabbing it in the comp window and dragging it to a new position. Yet it still tracks along because it is parented to the null with the track data.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Steve Roberts]

Most excellent system, Chris!

[James Lee]

was this whole project done in AE?

[Richie Grasso]

all AE – all the time

with a couple elements that originated in PS and/or AI

[Alexander Gao]

nice

Alexander Gao

“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”

[Andy Burmeister]

banjomamo, is there a way to update this link ? i’d like to see your cam anim

https://71.18.60.52/upload/cloud_love.mov

🙂 thanks