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Motion Graphics Camera Zoom/Pan smoothing consistency
I am working on a credits sequence where the camera zooms in and out of an image (getting a close up of each name).
I have been trying to get smooth consistant movement on this camera for a long time now, i just want it to look good.
I have smoothed out the curves in the graph editor along with smoothed out the ‘camera path’ in the top/side views.
Is there a plug-in or script or some awesome tips around that makes this a whole lot easier. It just seems that I cannot get it perfect (not to mention that after effects is a total pain when trying to make a perfectly sloped S curve in Graph Editor AND keep that curve consistant for each movement).
whenever I search on the subject I just find a lot of motion tracking/stabilizing things because of the words ‘camera’ and ‘smooth’.
Thank you for your help
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2 Replies
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For anything other than simple camera moves a camera rig is beneficial. It may simply be a camera parented to a null object or something more elaborate.
A good starting point are the 3 tutorials on Camera Rigs by Andrew Devis which you can find here:
https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Animating-a-Camera-1/1
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you might also take a look at this tutorial on videocopilot’s sure target rig:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/sure_target_2/
the second part (about the 20 min mark) covers a method that seems pretty similar to what you are doing.
you can download sure target on his updates page:
https://www.videocopilot.net/support/updates/#sure_target
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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