From the course: Cinema 4D: Camera Animation

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Smoother camera moves with the Align to Spline tag

Smoother camera moves with the Align to Spline tag - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

From the course: Cinema 4D: Camera Animation

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Smoother camera moves with the Align to Spline tag

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- After completing this course, it's unlikely you'll create a camera animation as jerky as this but there's a decent chance a client or a colleague will hand you a file with a really rough camera move. I'm going to show you how to use the Position Track to Spline command to make the best of a bad situation, and in the end we're going to end up with something that looks a bit like this. So jump into the start file and take a look at what we're working with. We've got a camera helpfully named Bad Camera, so we know this is the one we want to focus on, and I can already see just looking at the power slider that we're going to be in trouble because there are a lot of key frames on my power slider, and what that tells me is that a lot of positions get rotation animation that's been done on a camera and pretty much as a rule, once you've got more than a couple or three key frames on a camera that are position-scale rotation, you're going to end up with a jerky movement, and it's just a…

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