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Animating a camera move

Animating a camera move

- I have a nice ending pose, now I'd like to keyframe a camera move that ended up in this pose. However, keyframing in CINEMA 4D is considerably different that keyframing in After Effects. In my Object Manager I see my Objects, which are similar to the Layer stack inside After Effects, but no keyframing provisions here. Instead, my visual indication are these dots next to various parameters. Each of these with the dot can be keyframed. Now, CINEMA 4D does have a Window, Timeline where you can look at things in a keyframe mode or an F-Curve mode, which is similar to the graph editor in After Effects. But we'll stick with using this normal user interface inside CINEMA 4D. It does have some helpful tools, like the ability to record the position, scale and rotation of the selected object. It does have an auto key frame mode, but personally, I find that sets too many keyframes for my liking. So let's use the normal mode inside CINEMA 4D, and warn you about the gotchas in it. I want to end…

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