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Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to look at cameras...

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where things start moving around, and zooming in...

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we can make it look cool...

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I don't know. Cameras, let's go and look at how to do those.

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The first thing we want to do is to add a camera.

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We do that under 'Layer', 'New', 'Camera'.

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By default it's probably set to a 2-Node camera.

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Switch it to a 1-Node camera, it's just simpler.

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And make sure that the Field is turned off.

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Give it a name, well, just leave it as Camera1. Let's click 'OK'.

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Now depending on where your camera ends up...

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you might want to drag it to the top, it doesn't really matter.

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Just really common to drag your cameras to the top.

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Kind of battled it out for this Vignette.

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Now, you would have got an error message on yours, saying...

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"Hey, you created a camera that none of the layers can be seen yet."

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Mine's been disabled.

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All that means is that...

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the camera can't see any layers in my Comp until I turn these on.

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Watch this, I'm just dragging across these all.

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I'm going to say, I want all these on.

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The background layer needs to be unlocked, and turned on.

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I want to turn all these on, maybe not the Vignette.

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I don't want that seen by the camera.

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It can just stay around the edges there.

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What that means is...

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let's look at our before, and after.

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So my camera here, I'm going to twirl it down.

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Now we're looking at this '1 view', you can see it down here.

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And that, most of the times is where you want to be.

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In this case we're going to go to '2 Views - Horizontal'...

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to have a separate view, to actually see my camera, there he is there.

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It's my little camera pointing at my plain.

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So looking down on the top, and that's this.

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We're looking down at the razor edge of it, right there.

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Now this view's not handy for me at the moment.

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I find the best view is...

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let's click on the side, you can see...

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these blue dots in the corner, means I got this side selected.

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And it means that I can say 'Top'...

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I'm going to go to this 'Custom View 1'.

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It gives you a kind of a good look at it.

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I'm going to zoom in a little bit.

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So that's what's happening, right?

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Now this camera over here...

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and he is pointing and shooting at this.

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You can see even my text off-screen.

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Watch this, my Play Head, watch him.

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Actually, there he is. He appears there, and disappears down.

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So this is what ends up getting exported...

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but this is a handy view just to see what's going on.

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So what I want to do is I want to show you...

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if I have these off, look what happens.

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Get rid of all of these, get rid of that.

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You can see, the camera can't see them unless this is on.

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So all on, save for the Vignette.

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And what we're going to do is...

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we're going to play it till it gets to about maybe--

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I want that to appear on the regular screen.

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And then just before this second one appears...

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my wife...

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I'm going to get the camera to move.

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So let's get our Keyframe at about 706.

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Yours is going to be slightly different.

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And what we're going to do is...

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we're going to twirl down the camera, we're going to open up Transform.

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We're going to set the stopwatch going for Position.

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So we want it to stick there

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and then just before this one opens...

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or maybe just when you start seeing the circle...

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I would like to change the position.

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The first one, is I'm going to zoom in.

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So, grabbing this last...

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X, Y, and Z is the last one, Z is in and out.

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X and Y is left and right.

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I'm going to zoom in quite a bit.

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And then, dragging these--

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it's heaps easier to drag these two and then to use--

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There's some camera tools up here, but when you're new, hear me.

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I use it lots but I prefer doing it this way.

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Everyone has their own style.

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So what's going to happen now is...

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Cool, so it's kind of in the middle there.

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And I come back a little bit...

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and maybe just holding 'Shift' to snap it to it.

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Maybe just down a little bit, so it's right in the center.

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Couple of things I'm going to need to do.

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My computer's struggling a little bit, so I'm down at 'Quarter'.

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So at Low Res resolution, I'm going to turn off the sound...

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because that slows things down as well.

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And, What did I just turn off?

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Didn't even right click.

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I'm going to turn these off.

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Here we go, so hopefully now it will render a bit quickly.

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Nice.

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It's going along, it's doing its thing.

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And then zooms in.

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The camera is a little bit on the crappy side in terms of--

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We want to kind of grab these two guys and add some Easing.

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So I right click them, just like we did everything else.

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'75', '75'.

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Let's have a little look.

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It's got a nicer kind of motion to it. Goes on.

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So what we're going to do now is...

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put in two little Keyframes every time we want to move it.

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So I'm going to scrub along.

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And I can only just see it...

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but you can see in this View here.

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The other thing is-- you can see, this guy zooming in.

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It's when we do the Z position over time...

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so it's my little camera, I'm moving him.

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So when I get to just before this appears, I may be just a bit there.

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I'm going to set a Keyframe.

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So I'm going to set on manual Keyframe.

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Say between this one and this one, don't change.

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And then, a little bit longer...

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I'm going to, maybe a little bit earlier...

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I'm going to start messing with this.

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I'm not going to play with the Z any more.

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I'm going to play with just the X and the Y.

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And get all these guys to line up in the middle now...

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every time when your Icon appears.

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It's remembered the...

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It's remembered the Easing from the last time I did it...

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which is quite cool.

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Here you go.

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Next one.

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We're just going to do that as this thing builds.

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And keep doing it for the next one.

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It's a couple of things, we've done the Easing...

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the other one is Motion Blur.

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Motion Blur is on for the whole document...

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because we did it in an earlier tutorial...

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but at the moment, only thing being accepted is this...

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we've only turned it on for the Text Layer...

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because remember, it slid down off the screen, we turned it on.

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I'm going to turn it on for the rest of these, why?

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Because let's have a little look. I find that before--

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Great.

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So when it starts moving--

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So it's moving, right? There's no Motion Blur.

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I'm going to keep it here.

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I'm going to turn it to full resolution so I can show you properly.

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So it's in super crystal clear...

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but it's kind of moving quite fast.

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So what I want to do is actually turn the Motion Blur on...

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on all these layers.

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Watch it, I'm going to let it go.

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You see, it's blurring now.

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So it just means that when it's moving...

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it's getting all zoomy and blurry.

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So we'll do it to the Icons...

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and we even do it to the image in the background.

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Get down the bottom here, the image background.

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Turn it off for that one as well, watch.

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So it's kind of ?? so when it's moving quite fast...

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it's hard to preview because my machine's running a little bit slow.

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Give it a second.

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Fans are on.

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Hopefully if you're down with the same problem...

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it's not particularly complex animation.

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It's because I'm trying to do it all with...

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while doing screen capture recording.

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Here we go, kind of get it right, so it's moving and blurring.

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You get the point.

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So what I'm going to do now is just work my way around the document.

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Keeping an eye on this, and moving this around.

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So maybe we'll speed this up, and I'll see you at the end.

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Let's jump back in quickly here, and you'll notice that I kind of--

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so if I want to get this in the dead center...

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I might have to see it better than red.

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So if you don't want to do that...

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what you might have to do...

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is either move the Icon down, or...

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down here, for the background layer...

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we're going to have to open up the Scale.

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So we're going to open 'Transform'...

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I'm going to go to 'Scale', and we're just going to make it a bit bigger.

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So that there's not as much edge to see.

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It does have some ramifications when I zoomed all the way out...

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I'm copying a bit off.

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You can see, in the edges here, but it means, when I zoom in...

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there's a bit more kind of like flaff around the outside, or Bleed.

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Bleed's probably a better word.

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So back to going fast.

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So we're back, and probably for this last one, I'm just going to kind of...

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get it here, instead of doing just over...

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I'm actually going to zoom back out to what it was in the beginning.

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What was it in the beginning? I'm going to hover above this.

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And what's this Z? It's -2666.

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So I'm going back to here, just afterwards...

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instead of just moving it, I'm going to type it out to this.

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And actually I want all of the settings there.

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So I'm going to actually just go and steal the Keyframe.

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It's a cool trick.

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If I want to be exactly where that is now...

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where it's Full view, and I can see everything, just actually copy it.

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And go over here.

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I'm going to delete this one, and just hit 'Paste'.

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You can paste Keyframes like that.

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Cool. So, the last one.

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Nice.

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I'm just going to scrub through, it kind of moves around...

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and picks up all the different Icons.

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You can see the path of the camera there.

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That moves around.

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And then zooms all the way on the last one, my finale.

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All right, that is how to use a 1-Node camera.

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We've used it quite extensively, we've moved around quite a bit.

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You might just have a couple of other things...

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we just move it around a little bit.

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All right, let's get on to the next tutorial.