From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite

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Keyframing the move

Keyframing the move

- [Voiceover] To animate this camera movement I'll select my camera, press P for position, and shift-A for this point of interest where it's aiming, and enable key framing for both of those parameters. If I went all the way back to the start of my composition, I won't be able to see my text, so it's kind of hard to see where it's supposed to go. I could go back to my C40 layer, change it to the software renderer, see my ground plane and kind of guess. I'm gonna go to a point here in time where my text is starting to come on and go ahead and change to a more visible renderer like standard final or standard draft depending how fast my computer is, and then use the same tools to change my pose. For example, I ended looking up at the text, but now that means that this text is flying from below and on up. Let's pull the camera so that at least the text is flying on from somewhere around the center line or maybe even slightly higher, flying into position. Yeah, I think I like that. Now I…

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