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Screen Capture with recorded mouse position wanting to be used to influence camera movement
Hi,
I am using MiniMouseMacro to capture the x,y position of my mouse cursor relative to the resolution of my screen, 2560×1600.
In conjunction with that, I am capturing my screen using Open Broadcast Software which allows me to record demonstrations I share with photographers in Photoshop.
That recording, the footage of the screen capture, is then brought into After Effects, put into a composition and the layers 3D switch is turned on.
My intent is to provide a little richer visual experience than just flat footage playing through.
The idea is to take that mouse data, where I have the x,y coordinates recorded every 25ms, bring that into After Effects and have it be repurposed as a gentle influencer of movement to where the cameras is pointing, not to follow exactly and to feel like it is being tugged in the direction of the area where I am working in Photoshop.
The x,y coordinates can be broken out into an spreadsheet and further saved as a delimited text file.
Any suggestions or solutions would be thoroughly appreciated.
Thank you kindly,
Thomas
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2 Replies
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If you copy some position keyframes and paste them into a plain text document, you’ll see how they are formatted for AE. It’s a very simple and straightforward format.
You can format the keyframe information in a spreadsheet application, copy it to a plain text document, add the additional lines that AE expects into the document and copy and paste the lot to a null’s position. From there you can generate camera movement, add a smooth expression, etc.
25 ms per frame means 40 fps, so you’d want to make your comp fps that.
I’ve turned accelerometer input into 3D motion this way.
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Kalle,
Good morning, thank you so very much for taking the time out to share that response and the conversion to fps.
It seems you have approached the matter, although, in-terms of applying it to the front facing of a camera…is it best to attach the camera to a null object or directly apply the coordinate information to the camera?
Thank you again for sharing that information.
Kindly,
Thomas
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