From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
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Understanding keyframes
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
Understanding keyframes
- Now what we need to do is add some key frames for the camera lens. And there are really only two types of properties to control. Ultimately, the camera lens can be pointed at something and we can move both properties the same way. There's the position of the lens, which is its physical location. And its point of interest, which is what it's looking at. What you'll see in After Effects is that there's ultimately two properties and we can see these under the camera options and the transform. The point of interest is what the lens is aimed at and the position is its overall place that it's looking at. I'm going to click on the camera itself, so it's active. And let's use the period key to zoom in on the right hand viewer a bit. Space bar will give you the hand tool to reposition. What I want to do here is make a small change. I'm going to start a little lower to frame up our subjects and click on the X axis and…
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