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Adding a camera to a composition

Adding a camera to a composition - After Effects Tutorial

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Adding a camera to a composition

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Moving layers in 3D space is very useful, but the real fun happens when you move a camera through that space. Once you know how to animate a 3D layer, you've mastered most of what you need to animate a camera. If you have any compositions open, select Close All from the Composition menu. I'm using the same project that Chris was using, which is AEA_3D Space, and I'm going to open composition 04-Basic Camera*starter. I'll RAM Preview, and at a glance you can see that layers 1 through 5 have their 3D layer switch enabled. The background layer, layer #6 is a 2D layer. It can be hard to find a movie that can fill the space when you start animating the camera around your scene. But by using a blurry movie, something that looks like it's very far away, you can often get away with animating a camera and leaving the background in 2D space. Just remember that it won't react to any camera moves. But I think that will be okay. I'll select all the layers and press P for Position, and at a glance…

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