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Text counteracting camera move by 1/2 speed?
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Navarro Parker
June 5, 2017 at 7:50 pmA camera is zooming through Z-space as a series of text panels go by. The client has requested the text stay up longer (but other elements in 3D space moving normally).
What kind of expression could partially counteract the Z movement of the camera? It’s like I want to parent the text to the camera, but only have 50% influence.
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Kevin Camp
June 5, 2017 at 11:52 pmmaybe something like this:
cam = thisComp.layer(“Camera 1”);
value + [ 0, 0, cam.position[2] / 2 ]you could also just animate the z-positions of the text layers.
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Chris Scalzo
June 6, 2017 at 3:26 pmcould also do this if camera changes or if using in multiple comps with different camera names.
cam = this_comp.active_camera;
value + [ 0, 0, cam.position[2] / 2 ]
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