camera (hand held)

egendron · Post by **egendron** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:52 pm

hi,
Im a newbie to AS. have used it for short clips in other animated projects but am finally choosing to use it as my main medium. Hence I my have Q's from time to time. The first one that comes to mind involves "handheld camera" simulation.

I was wondering if there are places I could download scripts for different "handheld camera" movements (more herky-jerky or less herky-jerky) and if so, where are they?
thank you
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heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:19 pm

I have not seen a hand held camera script... it might be there if you search.

However there is key frame interpolation called "noise" which might do the trick... It only has 2 settings; scale and amplitude. So on frame 1 you would key the camera translation and set that key to "noisy". If you want it to stop being noisy later add a new key frame and change the interpolation.

-vern

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:38 pm

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Have you looked to the built in Script->Camera->Handheld Camera?

-G

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:51 pm

AAAHHHHGGGGG!!!!!

Okay... that's just too funny Genete. If it were a snake it would have bit me. Maybe that's what happened... I was bitten by a snake and the venom effected my memory.

-vern

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:55 pm

Genete! The only thing that script does is set the noisy interpolation on the key frame of the camera tracking roll and pan and tilt.

So I was pretty close!

-vern

egendron · Post by **egendron** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:00 pm

Thank you!

so its pretty much "on" or "off"?
as opposed to being gradually tweaked this way or that?
-egendron

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:22 pm

Well... yes... on or off... but...

I was playing with it a little bit. You can make the values really small on the noisy interpolation. It doesn't "fade" slowly but you could stick a bunch of frames in there by hand and set the values lower and lower until finally turning it off.

-vern

knunk · Post by **knunk** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:25 pm

Not sure how good the script is but, I'd look to do this out of AS. After effects or combustion. Theres a fairly simple "wiggle" script that can do this. You can attach this to a slider and control the degrees of camera shake. I'd say though a hand held camera is more than a shaky camera but something that sugests a person is actually holding the camera. A good result could be to use a real camera. Draw some registration marks on a bit of white paper. Pin it up, shoot it and track the results.

Cheers

Jez

egendron · Post by **egendron** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:49 pm

interesting thought!
suppose it could be applied frame by frame to the AS camera. as for doing it in Aftr FX, could be done if i exported each layer separately.
... although one of the advantages of doing it in AS is that you can use distance between layers and get a sort of "stereoscopic-like" depth illusion bc of the way the camera "sees" the different layers whilst "jiggling" unsteadily.