Parented camera rigs and motion paths


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Parented camera rigs and motion paths
by Steve Kirby on Apr 23, 2007 at 12:13:48 pm

When using a camera rig such as Chris and Trish Meyer's:

http://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.php?articleId=187203329

Or Dale/Paul/Stu's rig here:

http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2006/07/13/script-to-automate-riggin...

I cannot use motion paths in the comp viewer, and hence animating the rig cam along a smooth curve is near impossible.

Am I right or am I missing something? These rigs seem very useful for some linear moves, but for a weaving-along-a-path camera they seem very cumbersome.

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Re: Parented camera rigs and motion paths
by bogiesan on Apr 23, 2007 at 11:02:05 pm

> I cannot use motion paths in the comp viewer, and hence animating the rig cam along a smooth curve is near impossible.<

Do you mean you don't know how or you just won't?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: "For crying out loud, read the freakin' manual."

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Re: Parented camera rigs and motion paths
by Steve Kirby on Apr 24, 2007 at 7:48:42 pm

My question was: Am I right in that I cannot use motion paths? Eg. There aren't any. For the rig. Not the camera itself.

Because these rigs store the keyframe data in effects parameters rather than postion values, you have no visible motion paths, I believe, and hence animating along irregular curves is difficult. Unless, as I said, I am missing something.

As I'm sure we are all aware, there are no manuals for these camera rigs. Although I have read the material that accompanies their description, and done quite a bit of real world animation using them. Just not when I need to use motion paths.

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