Speed up camera motion

[grury]

Hum..wouldnt it be just as easy to go into the curve editor and tweek the camera curves.

[Heiki]

Tweaking in curve editor changes movements between keyframes a little. There should be an easier way.

I have a perfect camera movement. It is 540 frames. But for the final output I made a draft out in After Effects. There is now a lot of speed up's (wrap like effects) and slow downs. Also animation is instead of 540 frames 270 now.

I used time remapping in AE to do it. So basicly I would like to have time remapping for max as well :)
Curve editor would do the trick but it is a lot of work an even thought the camera movement will change a little between keyframes.

I found the plugin called Camera Switcher 0.65. It will time remapp the whole camera movement. But what I need is more complex time remapper where I can speed up and slow down certain parts of the camera movement.

[Heiki]

I came to the solution:
- save your animation (File > Save animation...)
- open motion mixer (Graphics editors > Motion mixer)
- add max camera object to motion mixer
- load a saved camera animation to the camera object
- use time warp for time remapping.

Works only with max 8. I'm soo happy.

[BrandonD]

You can non-destructively retime any animation track in MAX via Ease or Multiplier Curves. In fact, you can create a single Curve and have them instanced across multiple tracks. It's the easiest way to retime animation without changing keys.

[Heiki]

Thanx Brandon! Ease curve is really easy to use and does the trick here as well. So there are at least 2 methods in max how to do it. Through motion mixer and also by using ease curve.

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