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Animating cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite

Animating cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite

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Animating cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite

As well as animating individual elements, you can also animate cameras in Cinema 4D. I'm just going to run through, quickly, how you would animate a camera. And then, in the next movie, I'll show you how you can use preset animations, that have already been made for cameras. First of all we'll apply a camera, and there are three different camera types, a regular camera, a target camera, and a stereo camera. A stereo camera is for stereo 3D, a target camera actually fixes onto a target. We're just going to use a regular camera here, and you'll see that when it applies a camera. Its showing you the camera frame if you like displayed here in the viewer, and if we go to our 4-Up display. You can actually see the camera represented by a kind of pyramid. Similar to how it would be represented in After Effects. And here it's showing us what will be visible within that camera's field of view. Let's just zoom back out again and go back to perspective view by clicking on the middle mouse…

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