SteadyCAM update + add ons

[JoelOtron]

Fantastic Lennart

Thank you.

[MrBraun]

Tnx for sharing Lennart !! ;)

[pit]

:bounce: :thumbsup: Thanks, Lennart!!

[AdamT]

Fantastic setup, thanks Lennart.

[katman]

Thank you LennartI found your tutorial movies very helpful too.

[Darter]

Now these are some powerful, professional level tools. Thanks!

[Rich-Art]

Thanks Lennart.
I do like the stadycam setups.
Great work.

Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[artemesia66]

Thanks, Lennart!

[tonfarben]

I hope you know you made a really in depth tool for animation of cameras! This probably takes me a day to learn, but saves alot of time in the end. Thanks again for this beatiful expression set. Great!

[marcom]

oh yeah!
thanks a lot.

cheers
marcom

[R1PPER]

tcastudios....i had no idea quite how great this free camera set up was until i needed it. All i can say now is THANK YOU. Absolutly amazing....i tip my hat again and again and again.

I would just like to say that anyone that stumbles across thred and is about to leave....should stop right now. This is one of the greatest freebe's ever...THIS IS AN AMAZING GIFT....add this to your set up NOW.

[Robert Glotzbach]

Hello Lennart,

Want to say,........ THANK YOU Sooooooooo, MUCH.

I was trying to use the SteadyARC, my understanding is that its suposed to serve as a track or rail on which the SteadyCam can move.
So I merged it with the steadycam77 file, and dragged the name into CamTrack1 but no matter what I do, I cannot make it move along the arc.
What am I missing?

Kind regards.

[tcastudios]

The CamTrack fields only work with splines, so use the Arcspline object (not the SteadyARC Null).


Cheers
Lennart

[flingster]

cheers lennart.:thumbsup:

[Robert Glotzbach]

``The CamTrack fields only work with splines, so use the Arcspline object (not the SteadyARC Null).``


Its so simple when you know.

Thank you,
Kind regards, Robert

[govinda]

Hey Lennart--I finally got the chance to put SC77 to use. Just a simple setup for a job, but it performs great. No forget that, amazing. The eases are so natural.

The key addition that I notice is that you have a Spline Type entry, whereas before it seemed only to work with cubic, which are very limited for dramatic cam moves. There are times when only Beziers will do. I don't remember seeing that back in SC63 when I last used it. And spline interp between uniform and adaptive, very geeky, very geeky indeed.

I'm going to do a second setup that blends between spline tracks. In experiments, this is so seemless with SC77 as to be almost illegal. It should hurt to do this stuff, but it doesn't.

The other features are fantastic also. Being able to hide the path spline is important, love that. I still can't keep in mind what all the settings are.

I love this rig!

[govinda]

Blending from spline-track to spline-track done. I've never had such an easy time with a branching path.

Here's the situation, and it's usually a pain:
(1) Camera needs to get to a certain point while keeping a fast-moving hero object in frame.
(2) Camera needs to then rotate around the hero object as a kind of end-pad hold.

Sounds specific, but I've had to do it a lot. With SC77 you just set up two splines and the blend is almost done for you!

And then there's the blending from target to target. You can set up the degree of linearity/lag of the blend! Wow! In my experience moving targets around means you get hard 'slams' on your camera's B rotation, but not with this.

I've barely scratched the surface and I'm hooked!*

*My only complaint is the usual Xpresso priority lag. You have to keep clicking to get the history up to date to see your actual framing.

[tcastudios]

*My only complaint is the usual Xpresso priority lag. You have to keep clicking to get the history up to date to see your actual framing.

Thanks for your (and all otherss) nice words :) Yes it is very fast to work with esp when you get into it.
I will one day go throu the xpresso priorities. When starting this project I wasn't really awere of it. By pure luck it worked anyway....

Cheers
Lennart

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