Hi guys:

Busting your nads trying to get a pre-made path into position??? Fugetaboutit.

Here's a technique I picked up from justaviking. (Thanks man, this has made path making a breeze. )

First, scrub along the timeline changing your camera position at whatever intervals you desire. I changed position every 200 frames in the example below.



Then pick a point just in front of the first timeline marker, left click and drag, holding it until all of the markers have been included in the shaded area.



Right click on the first position and choose "Convert position to path".



BADA BING, you have your path with markers at every camera position you noted and at the height and location desired. Edit path as necessary to fit your needs. (make more round, add a dummy etc.)



pete

PS: This will work for any path, you can easily plot the most difficult fly-bys by letting your camera and the software do the heavy lifting.


http://www.youtube.com/user/peterblood50?feature=mhee

When parenting a camera with a dummy prop it gives way more control and more realistic control as the camera can emulate a dolly and crane shots more realistically.

I just wonder if I can save a prop and a camera into the content?