From the course: Element 3D Essential Training (2013)

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Using an After Effects camera

Using an After Effects camera

Another very exciting tool to use with Element is obviously, Cameras. This is just kind of a refresher. I have here this shot, and it's handheld, and kind of all over the place. And it's been tracked with CAMERATRACKER from The Foundry. So, I already have a camera that matches this scene. Just to show you how this works, I have a little test solid here, and this is a 2D solid, but I am going to put it in 3D space, and I'm going to open up its position, and I'm going to get it in the right spot. And there it is! And now, that's all I've done, there are no keyframes here. I could press U and nothing happens, so there is no keyframes. But, as soon as I play this back and it's a 3D object, then it automatically matches the movement in our shot because of the camera. So again, anytime you put 3D object with the camera, it's going to automatically follow the camera. So, the camera here also recognizes the 3Dness of Element. So, we don't have to do anything to animate if we have an animated…

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