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  • Could not find camera at current time.

    Posted by Bart Stevens on May 15, 2013 at 10:59 pm

    I get an error message that has me a little puzzled.
    This error just pops up in a dialogue box. Not consistently, but intermittently:

    Could not find camera at current time.
    Choose Layer>New>Camera to create a camera.

    I have a “master comp” that has multiple composites.
    In the master comp, I have a “master camera”, in each “sub-comp” I have cameras linked to the master comp camera.

    It doesn’t crash the program or do anything else, but I’m concerned with it interrupting rendering.

    Just a simple pick whip expression for the different options:

    comp(“Full Composite”).layer(“Master_Camera”).transform.position

    Bart Stevens replied 13 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Dan Ebberts

    May 15, 2013 at 11:34 pm

    Is there any kind of duration mismatch between the precomp layers and the main comp? When it happens, does it break any of the expressions?

    Dan

  • Bart Stevens

    May 16, 2013 at 12:10 am

    There is a “sort of” difference.
    I have all my precomps at 10,000 frames. My master comp has been trimmed down to 500 frames.
    The precomp layers are not trimmed down, but looking at my camera, adjustment layers and null layers, they are trimmed.
    Besides the camera error, I haven’t noticed any other expression errors.
    So you think having my master and sub-comps the same length will be more stable?
    Thanks again,
    Bart

  • Dan Ebberts

    May 16, 2013 at 1:12 am

    >So you think having my master and sub-comps the same length will be more stable?

    I’d give it a try.

    Dan

  • Bart Stevens

    May 16, 2013 at 4:00 pm

    I’ll try it out, thanks Dan

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