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Create a Cool 3D Room with ‘DOF’ from AK
Hey,
I watched the new Tut from Andrew Kramer: “Create a Cool 3D Room with nice title”, its pretty cool.
He links(pickwick expression) the camera Focus distance with the postion from a text layer and using the postion of the camera. So it has a nice DOF.
But what if i use 3 text layers in a that sort of a 3d room and same animation. How can i achieve a nice DOF with 3 layers?
The first text layer is at 1, sec at 2, thirth at 3. The animation is 4sec total.
Do i have to play around with time in that expressions so it changes the DOF in time. Or do i link the other at the first 1 layer?
What could i do?(I dont have a clue, actualy)expression:
length(thisComp.layer(“text01”).transform.position,transform.position)https://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/3droom/index.htm
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Peace
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2 Replies
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You could use a null as the focal point instead of the text, and then just keyframe the null moving between each of the text pieces you want to focus on.
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You can link it to the position of a Null object. And you can Animate the Null object to go to some text, hang a round there for a little bit, and then move on to the next piece of text. That will cause the camera to focus on the different text areas.
If you are new to Null objects, I cover them in this weeks AE podcast, and I even shwo you how to link the Point of Interest to a Null object for more control over your 3D camera.
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