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Trouble animating cameras with keyframes
Hello,
I’ve always created camera animations using splines and the “Spline to position track”. Now i want to use keyframing to achieve a different type of animation. Trouble is it’s just not coming together for me. I suspect its my improper sequence of placing starting keyframe, cameras, and moving time bar for record next camera position.
Please help me with the rudiments.
Michael
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6 Replies
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Michael,
1. What kind of look are you trying to achieve?
2. Make sure your keyframe interpolation/f-curves are up to snuffNicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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Hi Nicholas,
With the “spline to position track” , cameras just move along the spline. What I’m trying to achieve thru “keyframing cameras” is to allow cameras pause, spin and make manourvres that aren’t tied to a spline path.
How do i sort out the ‘interpolation/f-curves’?
My problem (i think) is this: what comes first? Do i first move slide bar to in time frame, then position my camera, and thereafter click f9 to keyframe? Which is what i’ve been doing but nothing is happening.
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By the way,
I’ve just got the camera keyframe to work on a fresh new file, just around a sphere. But how come it’s not working on my main file?
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Maybe a dumb question, but do you still have an align to spline tag on the camera? If not it should work as in your test file. It’s conceivable that the file could be corrupt. In that case you might try copying everything and pasting it into a new scene.
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There aren’t any ‘align to spline tags’ on the cameras. I’ve also noticed that after tweaking the fresh file severally, the cameras eventually stopped responding to the keyframing as well. By ‘tweaking’ i mean deleting some keyframe, adding new once, and trying auto-keyframing too at random.
Could in have done something that can corrupt even a fresh obedient file?
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I did what you suggested: copy my stuff into a fresh file, and its worked perfectly. Thanks a million
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