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Need help with titles
So here is my situation.
I have 21 titles strewn about my comp with different positions, rotations, etc. – all scattered in 3D space.
I want to animate my camera in a way that it speeds up to a title, slows down, rotates around it, and quickly moves on to the next one. I’d really like to avoid just hand-animating the camera, and I’m wondering if there is a way to do this with splines, and attaching the camera to them.
Any help would be great!!!
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yes, just as you describe. Make your spline and attach the camera to it with an Align to Spline tag then control the movement along the spline with the position parameter in the Align to Spline tag and tweak the speed with F-Curves
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As a practical matter you’ll probably want to control the camera’s focal point separately from its position, which means not using the align option. What you might want to do is give the camera a target tag and target a null that’s a child of the camera. That way you can animate the null’s position to direct the focal point.
Or if you really want to get fancy buy the SteadyCam plugin which gives you all kinds of controls. Highly recommended.
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Would it be just as efficient to create a target cam, or is there something more beneficial to making a null from scratch? Also, where do I find that steadycam plugin/how much does it cost?
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Yep, using a target cam will save you a couple of steps.
The plugin is about $63/US and you can find it here: https://homepage.mac.com/tcastudios/steadycampro.html
No relation to the seller and all that.
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also no relation to steadycam here but i highly recommend it for the kind of cam moves you want to do. it’s brilliant, really useful in complex smooth moves and multi-cam switching. well worth investigating. good tutorials and support also.
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