After Effects

So I've been busy designing my idea, and planning out what I want it to all look like although I am have an issue, how do I make the second camera pan? This is something I need to look into.

I searched youtube, and too be honest it didn't take very long at all to find a tutorial that would help me achieve this. It was pretty simple, I only listened to a few minutes of the tutorial then I knew what to do.

I should probably prove myself.

Okay to create a camera what you need to do is;

1. Create a new composition
2. Add a Camera object - Camera's can only be used on 3d layers therefor you will need to make all your layers 3D, to do this there is a 3D option within the layers, its the Cube just tick that box and your layer will become 3D.
3. Create a Null Object, the purpose of this is to control the camera otherwise according to the tutorial I watched it is hard to control camera's without a Null Object.
4. Now you need to make the Null Object and the Camera work together to do this you can see a spiral sort of thing near the 3D layer option, if you click the spiral from the camera to the Null Object they will become linked and work with each other.
5. What you need to do now is decide what way you want the camera to pan. For this I decided I would grab a random image, enlarge it so that it was off my screen and then guide the Null Object around it.
6. With this you need to create positions for the camera to do the press 'P' this will load the position of the layer and allow you to key them in.
7. Set the keyframe to your starting position, then move your timer to however much you wish on your timeline and keep setting them in the way you want until you are satisfied with the movement you have.

Example:

The quality isn't brilliant, but it shows the camera panning around the image.

What happens is that the camera actually stays still and the image moves around the camera which is pretty cool!

I applied this to my sequences allowing me to pan through the image, and throwing photos into the mix.


Anyway this is as far as I've got so far I've done a few more bits on the video and its pretty much finished. However I'm not 100% happy with it yet so will keep this up to date on whats happening!