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  • turning off / changing target on a target camera

    Posted by Jack Sewell on September 28, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    hi all,

    I have a target camera moving along a spline path pointing at an object, and I’d like the target camera to follow the object up till a point. Is there anyway you can automate the target of the target camera with having to cut to another camera.

    The effect I want is for the camera to swoop around an object, keeping it’s focus on it, then move away to focus on another all in one fluid motion. Is there a way to keep using target cameras in order to avoid key framing the view of the camera?

    Please excuse my newbie questions…………

    Jack Sewell replied 15 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brian Jones

    September 28, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    other than putting the target null inside of another null, you could look at CSTools Easy Cam (free – https://circlesofdelusion.blogspot.com/) of SteadyCamPro (not free – no v12 version yet – https://homepage.mac.com/tcastudios/steadycampro.html)

  • Jack Sewell

    September 28, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    I used the easycam for the first animation, cutting between them using stage, but the results are very start / stop. I need something to produce fluid results. I have to fluidly travel around 7 targets in a complex terrain……

    Steadycam looks good but I’ve got R11.5 on a 64bit system, and it says 10 – 11. Do you know if it works for 11.5 / 64 bit?

    Also, it says it’s got 4 target placements, but once you have moved past the first three say, can you keyframe to replace them?

    Many thanks,
    Jack

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