AE Script: Simple Camera Rig - Updated

After watching a recent tutorial from Jerzy Drozda Jr over at maltaannon.com on simple camera rigging, I wanted to write a script that performed this process with just one click. The script will do the following:

* Make a new camera
* Makes a series of Nulls and parents them to a Control Null
* Writes the required expressions needed for the camera and Nulls
* Allow the user to control the camera via the Control Null

Now I know there are a lot of camera rigging scripts out there, but I thought it was a good place for me to start on my script learning journey. If you think you would find this useful then you can download it here: www.hypoly.com/

Updates

25/12/10 - updated script with added position controls

20/12/09 -Some issues with parenting should now all be sorted out

I have added a quick tip for using the script with sure target 2 on my site so check it out if your interested. http://hypoly.com/blog/simplecamerarig-and-suretarget2/

Tags: script

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Ira Shain on December 2, 2009 at 1:09pm

Great script ! Thanks for putting this together. I had a problem that the expressions connecting the Null controller x,y,z rotate are not connected to the camera rot x,y,z. I tried it with AE7 maybe that is the problem. I'll try it with CS3 when I get a chance. But even still having the script do all the setup and then just having to pickwhip the camera to the Null controls is not a big deal.

Thanks again -

Ira

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Chiny on December 3, 2009 at 4:21am

Hey.
Glad you like it. I actually found out that there was a problem with the parenting and so I have now sorted it out so if you would like to download it again and test it out that would be great.
Cheers

Ira Shain said:

Great script ! Thanks for putting this together. I had a problem that the expressions connecting the Null controller x,y,z rotate are not connected to the camera rot x,y,z. I tried it with AE7 maybe that is the problem. I'll try it with CS3 when I get a chance. But even still having the script do all the setup and then just having to pickwhip the camera to the Null controls is not a big deal.

Thanks again -

Ira