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Controlling cameras with tags

Controlling cameras with tags - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

From the course: Learning Cinema 4D

Controlling cameras with tags

- [Instructor] We're going to take a look at how we animate cameras and how we use tags to facilitate animation. So let's just start off nice and easy with this main camera. We're going to focus on the main camera, and all we want to do is make it kind of move in towards the building. Okay, that's it, just that. So what I'd like to do is at frame zero, this is where we are, this is where our timeline is, so we're highlighting frame zero. We can click here on the diamond to set a keyframe for the position X at this point. If you click and drag, you'll paint additional keys. Let's do that for our rotation keyframes as well, and then we'll move over to frame 30, just by clicking, or you can drag, but we're at frame 30. And then all we want to do is just use our standard navigation controls, just to move in just a bit. That's all we've done. We've just dollied in. And in fact, we didn't even change our rotation. So those…

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