How do I get this incredible smooth movement?

[Nicholas Toth]

Use ROVE ACROSS TIME function
or set the position of a null to a PATH — then parent the camera to the null. Maybe adjust your zooming or parent the path null to another null to control the z axis.

Tons of ways to do it.

[Anonymous]

Are your camera movements looking blocky? Have you tried just making your keyframes bezier?? If you are in ae 7 then you can use the graph editor and that can help things out also.

Scott R.
http://www.projectrooster.com

[Aeprowannabe]

additional question about this. when working on this type of camera/ 3D comp, do you first layout the elements in 3D in varies places than work on the camera movement? What is the best workflow for this type of animation?
thanks!

[Filip Vandueren]

I started using this trick a few months ago, but it makes so much sense now:

In animating the position of my camera, I just keep everything linear, especially temporal stuff, concentrating on getting the correct speeds and directions between keyframes, and ignoring the ‘corners’ which will look bumpy, because of the sudden speed and direction changes.
Depending on the path I want, I of course might use bezier curves between two keyframes.

Now just add an expression like this:

smooth(width=.5, samples=25, t=time);

Just like it says on the tin: smooth motion, baby… You’ll notice it the most around keyframes, so if there’s a position change, the width=.5 means the change is smoothed out over half a second.

The downsides are:
1. because of the rounding effect this has, many times, you won’t pass exactly through the position set in the keyframe.
2. everything gets eased, and also, when starting from a standstill, the motion will actually start before your keyframe.

if 2. bugs you, you could create a slider expression control to control the width parameter.

It’s really made animating much simpler for me, ’cause his is impossible to achieve by using bezier curves and other temporal interpolation types: they always also change what happens everywhere between two keyframes.
And once you know how it works you can forget about it.
Kind of like the diff. between bezier and rotobezier: you know it rounds off your path the way you want it to.

[Reloaded]

Hi guys, thanks to all of you.

My doubt is not about bezier curves or the diferent speed between the keyframes. The only thing that drives me crazy is that my motion is not as smooth as the video I added a link. My videos have a “jumping” or “blocky” effect, maybe I didn’t make myself clear because of my English. I’m not american.

I needed the movement to have another keyframe between ths first and the second for example so the movement was smoother, but I cannot encrease the time of the animation. I hope you get it, I know it’s kind of estrange, but they do it in the videos from ESPN, if I create a similar project over the ESPN video, my movement wouldn’t be as smooth as the original one.

[Steve Roberts]

Can you post an example on a website? A video is worth a million words.

Hmm … maybe you are making videos that are of such high quality, that your computer cannot play them back smoothly because the videos have a high data rate?
Do your videos play back smoothly in RAM preview when playing all frames?

[Joshua Ferg]

Check here – download teh file and study how the camera is attached to the nulls. It’ll change your life.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=892365

[Aeprowannabe]

dang..i only have AE 6.5 and the AEP saids it 7.0. is there way to make this work?

[Proud_bartolo]

I Have absolutlye the same question, my movement of a simple still image across the screen()horizontal) is choppy as well. so weird.

A solution would be very appreciated. Even motion blurring it doesnt help me out.

And when i do ram previeuw it is choppy/shaky as well

greetings

Barto

[Joshua Ferg]

Download the demo for 7. You’ll have 30 days to use before you have to buy.