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Helpful expressions for cameras

Helpful expressions for cameras - After Effects Tutorial

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Helpful expressions for cameras

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- In this movie, we're going to explore a few expressions we can add to cameras to add some additional movement and realism to our composition. So I'm here in my chapter three underscore five composition, and I've actually added some expressions already so you guys can take a look, but I find these to be pretty awesome when you're working with 3-D and a camera in space. So a lot of times in the last couple of movies, whether it be in chapter one or chapter three, we've moved a layer back in 3-D space but really wanted the scale of that layer to remain the same. So what we did is we positioned it back and then we scaled up the layer. There is actually a easier way to do that, and that is by using an expression on the scale of a 3-D layer, and in fact, if I take a look here on one of these layers in particular, I have a expression written on the scale value, so that's E-E to reveal the expression that's currently on a layer. Basically what's happening here is there is, it is referencing…

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