Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #53200
From: Phil Bearman <phil@philbearman.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [AE] How do I quickly rearrange a Sure Target 2 camera layout?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:20:14 +0000
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Hi Teddy,

I think the key to what you're trying to achieve is selecting multiple keyframes and adjusting all of their values by the same amount at the same time.  You do this by selecting all the ones you want to change, making sure the Current Time Indicator is over the top of any one of the keyframes, and click-dragging the kayframe value to increase/decrease all of the selected keyframes by the same amount.

I've recorded a quick screen capture showing me rearranging 5 Sure Target targets from 1-2-3-4-5 to 1-5-2-3-4, moving the associated keyframes (so the timings are maintained), and then adjusting the keyframe values to keep them running in sequence.

Hope this all makes sense and solves your problem, but let me know if anything doesn't make sense.

Here's the screen capture video - there's no audio on it:   https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1388508/SureTargetDemo.mp4   (it's only 4Mb)

Cheers,
Phil


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On 7 March 2014 21:26, Robert Davidson <robdav@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
Hi Teddy,
If I’m understanding correctly….couldn’t you just rename all the targets (and option/drag to replace them), so that the order of appearance is how the client wants it?
Cheers, Rob


On 8 Mar 2014, at 5:00 am, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:

EDIT:
 >instead of smoothly animation from where target 35 is in 3d space over to where target 35 is, so the target order is VERY important. 

Meant to say:  "instead of smoothly animating from where target 25 is in 3d space over to where target 35 is, so the target order is VERY important." 


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
    So this may be a bit complicated to explain, but I will do my best. I am coming to the end of a project where I did the whole layout using Sure Target 2.0 (free plugin available from video copilot, it's a life saver) in conjunction with Simple Camera Rig (plugin from aescripts.com, but not really relevent to this), it has about 35 targets (representing camera move positions) that are represented by 3D nulls. You then plug these nulls into the plugin script and it automates camera moves between targets with predefined settings. It makes a lot of issues of working with AE's camera much faster. However, now the client has asked for a section of the piece moved to the beginning of the video and this really f***s up the whole layout. 

Because these targets are laid out in sequence numbered 1-35, in order to retime the whole thing I'd either have to move every keyframe denoting which target to hit, or rebuild the entire ordered number sequence of targets. This is because if you set a keyframe for the camera to animate between targets 25-35, it will hit every target in sequence between those numbers, instead of smoothly animation from where target 35 is in 3d space over to where target 35 is, so the target order is VERY important. 

At this point I am thinking of simply cheating the middle section to the beginning with a second camera in a precomp, while keeping the overall target sequence order intact. 

To anyone not familiar with this plugin this may all sound like nonsense, but would anyone familiar with Sure Target be able to offer another idea? My brain is pretty fried on this one. 
-TG

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