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Setting up a simple camera rig

Setting up a simple camera rig

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Setting up a simple camera rig

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- [Instructor] Now, I know you might be thinking to yourself, well, what if I want to create an animation that's as simple to animate the camera as a one-node camera, but I do want to have the option of orbiting around the area that I'm looking at? Well, that's when rigging a camera, actually comes in handy. So what we're going to do is create what I call a simple camera rig. And to do that, we're going to make use of a null object. So to start, I want to go up under the Layer menu, and yep, I want to make sure the Composition panel or Timeline panel's active. So I'll click in the Composition panel, and go back over to Layer, and choose New Camera. And here I want to choose a Two-Node camera because I want to have the point of interest as an option. And here under the Preset, I'll choose 50 millimeter for the preset and click OK. So with this camera selected, just so we can more clearly see what's going on, I'm going to go to the Composition panel and change my 1 View to 2 Views…

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