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Quality Camera Animation
by Jonathan Kempe on Sep 30, 2008 at 3:47:51 pm

I´m doing a road movie camera animation in CD4 and I think its hard to control the camera via Cd4 camera-follow-spline and target object setup. The movement is very hard to get smooth and nice and its difficult to control.

Then I found these two plugins that can MORPH between a set of cameras! Seems like the perfect way to do it.

ScoobyCamTools v4.1
http://www.c4d-jack.de/html/downloads/scoobycamtools/eng/index.html

SteadyCAMPROv3
http://homepage.mac.com/tcastudios/steadycampro.html

looks very nice both of them... but they cost money.

Does anyone know any other plugin that can do the morph between cameras? (Its just the morph between cameras I´m intrested in, all the other features are little to much...)


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Re: Quality Camera Animation
by Brian Jones on Sep 30, 2008 at 6:35:53 pm

Were you using splines with Intermediate Points set to Uniform?

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Re: Quality Camera Animation
by Jonathan Kempe on Oct 1, 2008 at 7:51:45 am

Yes. Still its not a good way to do it. I want to have full control over the speed and point of views.

Watch this example movie and you see what I try to do.

http://homepage.mac.com/tcastudios/steadycampro/scprov3movies/SteadyWalkexa...

How do you make this in Cinema with splines? Its impossible. Or? Any suggestions?



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Re: Quality Camera Animation
by Adam Trachtenberg on Oct 1, 2008 at 11:02:12 am

There is a free version of Steadycam Pro -- check around on the site. I actually bought that version but he started giving it away when he wrote one that's a little more advanced. The (now)
free one is plenty good enough for my needs -- great plugin.

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Re: Quality Camera Animation
by Lennart Wåhlin on Oct 1, 2008 at 11:31:10 am

I'm afraid SteadyCAMFREE (teh former SteadyCAMPROv2 that Adam is refering to)
is not available anymore.
You can check out CSTools by C.Smith that is a collection of xpresso setups
including Camera stuff.

http://circlesofdelusion.blogspot.com/

Cheers
Lennart Wåhlin - tcastudios

aka tcastudios

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Re: Quality Camera Animation
by Adam Trachtenberg on Oct 1, 2008 at 3:55:20 pm

Oops, sorry Lennart. In any case, the plugin is well worth the money.

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Re: Quality Camera Animation
by Jonathan Kempe on Oct 6, 2008 at 12:14:08 pm

Thanks alot Lennart!

I checked out the CSTools and they seem to be fine to start with! There´s one called Mocam and it seems very interesting.

If I like this way to work with cameras I probably go for the SteadyCAMPro sometime in the future.

Thanks!
Jonathan




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