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Sweeping shots with the Camera Crane

Sweeping shots with the Camera Crane - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Sweeping shots with the Camera Crane

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- When you see a crane shot in a live action film, you know that at least some money was spent. A sweeping crane shot can add a sense of grandeur, and it can also serve as a fun introduction to a setting. In this video we're gonna cover how to use the camera crane object in order to capture an exterior shot of our modern house. Let's take a look at the completed scene here. You see that's there's Null Object called Crane, a Camera object, and a special tag on this Camera object. This is called the Camera Crane Expression. It's what's really giving power to this whole setup. If you look at this in any of your side views, you'll see that we have what looks like a camera crane. There's a tripod at the base, a long arm, as well as an arm for the camera as well that sort of acts as a stabilizer, keeps it nice and level. So let's go through the process of recreating this in our scene. So I'm gonna open up the Start version of this project. Inside of the scene we have camera object already…

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