Return-Path: Received: from omr8.networksolutionsemail.com ([205.178.146.58] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4850994 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:33:31 +0200 Received: from cm-omr11 (mail.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.50]) by omr8.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q8ILYvdE021119 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:34:58 -0400 Authentication-Results: cm-omr11 smtp.user=chris@chriszwar.com; auth=pass (PLAIN) X-Authenticated-UID: chris@chriszwar.com Received: from [122.150.240.225] ([122.150.240.225:49208] helo=[192.168.0.5]) by cm-omr11 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.41 r(31179/31189)) with ESMTPA id 1F/35-32029-109E8505; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:34:57 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: [AE] importing maya scene into after effects From: Chris Zwar In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:34:55 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <00341103-6361-411C-BBD1-D963E6534C5F@chriszwar.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) On 19/09/2012, at 2:39 AM, Louai Abu-Osba wrote: > I've heard from some people > that were never able to get the resulting AE camera to match the Maya > camera perfectly and locators didn't translate correctly either.=20 Without going into long details, sometimes the camera lens setting = doesn't come across from maya. Generally, if the camera has been baked = properly then the position and rotation data will come over to AE = without any problems. But the lens setting - what AE calls the 'zoom' - = is sometimes different. Adjusting this so it matches the Maya camera = will bring everything back into alignment. =20 I've never had a camera from Maya that simply didn't work, unless it = hadn't been baked properly. -Chris=