From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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Adding cameras

Adding cameras

You can add 3D cameras to a scene, look through the viewfinder to line up the shot, animate them, and adjust the focal length. Cameras can also be imported using FBX, Alembic, and even the Boujou camera tracker. You've got this little 3D scene here to use as cannon fodder for our camera work. So the first thing to do is to see how we will add a camera. We'll come over to the 3D pop-up and select camera. The camera appears at origin. We can adjust it by either interactive on screen controls like this, or come over to the property panel. And adjust it like this. And we'll, rotate it down. And, bring it over in y and maybe move back in x. Okay, now we got it roughed it. We'd like to look in the viewfinder to see how we're doing. To do that, you go to this pop-up here and select the camera out of the list. To lock the viewfinder, you need to click this red button. If you don't, then the camera can get knocked off alignment. The other neat thing about this is, I can zoom back, alt + middle…

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