From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Adding camera shake

Adding camera shake

Now in a perfect world, all cameras are on Steadicams and are operated by perfectly talented individuals who precisely move the camera, or perhaps, robotic controls. Well, that doesn't often happen and sometimes, we expect a certain bit of organic movement or bounce to make a shot feel natural. This is very easy to add with the wiggler. Now what I'm going to do is duplicate the cameras before I do this, so I'll press Command + D and apply this to the second camera. I'll just call this wiggle cam and do the same thing on the other one here so that if the producer or client doesn't like it, I can easily go back to the non-shaky camera. Now let's select this and we'll choose all the key frames. I could press u to see my user-added key frames. When I click on these properties, it's very simple. Now we'll bring up the wiggler. You'll find it under the window menu and it's just one of the panels. If you don't see it,…

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