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lamesville
02-29-2008, 04:30 PM
Hello,
I've been messing around with the "DocuCam" tool that I found in the goodies package released by Chris Smith. While this is an amazingly fun and intuitive tool, I'm having some issues when I try to export my scene set-up to After Effects for compositing.
The DocuCam C4d camera seems to default to a very narrow field of view settings and it seems that I can't change it (when I change the number it immediately jumps back to the default setting). And, in fact, I can't seem to adjust any of the camera's object properties. This wouldn't be such a big deal, but it seems to create really strange and extreme 3d space in After Effects.
I was just wondering if there were any known "gotchas" with using this type of C4d expresso tool and exporting your scene to other software. Or if I'm perhaps missing a simple solution that I'm not seeing.
Thanks for any help.

Mark
C.Smith
03-02-2008, 02:07 PM
The target depth always focuses on the object you drop in the drop box. If you want to offset it from that, use the 'depth offset' slider. To use it in AE, you need to bake cameras, But the problem with docucam is that the camera itself stays at zero coords since it rides along a null that is actually in motion. So you can create a new camera and constrain it to the docucam camera and bake that new camera out or pipe the global matrix of the docucam camera to the new camera (with Xpresso) and bake that out.

If you aren't seeing the 'depth offset' slider, then you need to use the newest docucam which can be found here:

http://sugarfilmproduction.com/CSTools.zip

Also if you have more questions you can find me at mograph.net.
Blabberlicious
03-19-2008, 08:37 AM
I stumbled across these tools last night.

Absolutely fantastic.

Many thanks for sharing these.
C.Smith
03-20-2008, 03:29 PM
sure ;)





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