Problems with camera in my projectt

[Jim Scott]

My first guess would be that if you added a camera to your project and keyframed its position, you might have switched back to the default camera when trying to watch the animation. Make sure that the animated camera is active in the object menu. But without seeing the project it would be hard to offer more help.

Post your project file and it will be much easier to see what you may have done wrong.

[Kenneth Knudsen]

Okay, Well here i made a youtube video of what my problem is. its horrible quality on the picture but i hope you understand what i mean. Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84-IhLoKePw&feature=youtu.be

[Jim Scott]

Kenneth,

You are adding keyframes to the second camera (the one selected in your object menu) while making changes to the default camera. Since you are moving the default camera, the second camera is simply having multiple keyframes added at different times but with no change in its position.

You need to have the second camera active (either double click on the icon that looks like a camera, or single click on the button to the right of the “traffic” lights. It will change to white when that camera is active. Once that camera is active, then keyframe its position, zoom, etc. as you were doing.

Essentially, while you thought you were animating the camera you were looking through (the default camera, since that was active), you were adding keyframes to the second camera which was not being moved. In this case, neither camera had any animation since the default camera never had any keyframes added as you changed its position, and the second camera was never moved, but only had multiple keyframes of the same position added at different times.

Remember, the object selected in the object menu will have keyframes added when you click the Record Active Objects button, but if you you’re not moving that object there will be no resulting animation. Make sure the second camera is selected, AND active when trying to keyframe it.

Hope this helps.

[Kenneth Knudsen]

Okay, Yeah i followed you advice and now i encountered the second problem ive had 1000x times. Ive uploaded a youtube video to show you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg7au7zORdQ

[Jim Scott]

First, setting keyframes (what you are calling “locking”) for the text null is unnecessary. Unless you are planning on animating the text as well you don’t need any keyframes for the null. It’s position will stay constant unless you purposely move or animate it.

Second, you are still confusing yourself by switching back and forth between the Default and Main cameras (the one in your object menu that I called the “second camera” before but feel it may be better to call Main since it is the one you are animating).

With the Main camera active and selected, go to frame 0 and adjust its view to your desired starting position. Set a keyframe. Go to the frame where you would like the camera move to end, adjust its view/position again, and set a second keyframe. You now have a simple camera move between the two positions or camera views. (You could do this in reverse, as you were initially trying to do in your video, but for learning purposes just keep it simple.) Return to frame 0 and press play. The Main camera is still the active view, and you will see the view animate between the two keyframed positions.

Notice that you have not used the Default camera at all. Only use the Default camera if you want to temporarily look at something from a different view (for modeling purposes, for example). And always make sure the Main camera is active and selected whenever you want to add or modify keyframes for it.

[Kenneth Knudsen]

I dont get it, I do exactly as you say now, only use the second camera in second camera view, keyframing where i want it at the beginning, keyframe it at the end. Still the camera STARTS way off like it did on the second youtube video and ended up on the logo. I dont get it what i do wrong

[Kenneth Knudsen]

But, the weird thing is. If i create a new file. just make a simple box and do what i did in the other file, the camera follows. But in my logo file it happens what happend on the end of my second utube video. Any clue what could be wrong in the file?

[Kenneth Knudsen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4s5CGgSETQ&feature=youtu.be

Here is a better view of whats happening.

[Kenneth Knudsen]

I found out i did not have a target tag on the object, thats why the camera went out of line. but now after setting the target i have a problem that the camera wont show the animation… again…. and i made sure to have the camera marked etc etc when setting keylockcs or whatever its called…

[Kenneth Knudsen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajfw-zKnmAM

I locked it now, and heres my last problem, the animation wont show, even tough im pretty sure it works right.