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If you use track and zoom camera alot like I do, you may find this copy previous track and zoom camera useful. Most of the time. Before when I want to freeze the camera key, I had to click on the camera, and click on the canvas to create the keyframe. There may be other ways easier than this that I missed. However, I asked ChatGPT to create a script for me to freeze the camera key that I most often use in my animaton, track and zoom camera. So here is the script. It works just find and as expected. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sabjg9 ... drive_link

Interesting...I'll check it out later today! Thanks for sharing!

Panha wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:36 pm If you use track and zoom camera alot like I do, you may find this copy previous track and zoom camera useful. Most of the time. Before when I want to freeze the camera key, I had to click on the camera, and click on the canvas to create the keyframe. There may be other ways easier than this that I missed. However, I asked ChatGPT to create a script for me to freeze the camera key that I most often use in my animaton, track and zoom camera. So here is the script. It works just find and as expected. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sabjg9 ... drive_link

I tried using it and found it ineffective. In fact, just using camera number 4 is sufficient, so why did that tool add camera number 5? Using two cameras at the same time makes the camera very uncomfortable.

congz wrote: ↑Tue Sep 02, 2025 9:20 pm

Panha wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:36 pm If you use track and zoom camera alot like I do, you may find this copy previous track and zoom camera useful. Most of the time. Before when I want to freeze the camera key, I had to click on the camera, and click on the canvas to create the keyframe. There may be other ways easier than this that I missed. However, I asked ChatGPT to create a script for me to freeze the camera key that I most often use in my animaton, track and zoom camera. So here is the script. It works just find and as expected. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sabjg9 ... drive_link

I tried using it and found it ineffective. In fact, just using camera number 4 is sufficient, so why did that tool add camera number 5? Using two cameras at the same time makes the camera very uncomfortable.

That's mostly what I do all the time. I use Camera 4 and 5 most of the time. For example, when I want to cut scene or zoom in/out quickly. Anyway, you can customize the code, and share it too.

Greenlaw wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 8:14 am Interesting...I'll check it out later today! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, and if you find it does not right to your workflow, you can customize it to your like.

Panha wrote: ↑Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:43 pm

congz wrote: ↑Tue Sep 02, 2025 9:20 pm

Panha wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:36 pm If you use track and zoom camera alot like I do, you may find this copy previous track and zoom camera useful. Most of the time. Before when I want to freeze the camera key, I had to click on the camera, and click on the canvas to create the keyframe. There may be other ways easier than this that I missed. However, I asked ChatGPT to create a script for me to freeze the camera key that I most often use in my animaton, track and zoom camera. So here is the script. It works just find and as expected. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sabjg9 ... drive_link

I tried using it and found it ineffective. In fact, just using camera number 4 is sufficient, so why did that tool add camera number 5? Using two cameras at the same time makes the camera very uncomfortable.

That's mostly what I do all the time. I use Camera 4 and 5 most of the time. For example, when I want to cut scene or zoom in/out quickly. Anyway, you can customize the code, and share it too.

“You only need to use Camera 4 to pan and zoom; there’s no need to use Camera 5. Using two cameras at the same time is really unprofessional, causes lag, and makes the camera movement path look messy and unattractive.”

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“You only need to use Camera 4 to pan and zoom; there’s no need to use Camera 5. Using two cameras at the same time is really unprofessional, causes lag, and makes the camera movement path look messy and unattractive.”
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It's the way I track and zoom the scene for my animation. I have done this for more than 200 episode of my animations. You may have your own methods of working with Camera. However, using only a zoom camera would not make sense to me since most of the time, I need both zoom and track to capture the scene and the subject with the scenes. I don't know how could you use only zoom camera to work with a whole animation, but it you can do that, it would be strange to me.

Panha wrote: ↑Fri Sep 19, 2025 10:23 pm

“You only need to use Camera 4 to pan and zoom; there’s no need to use Camera 5. Using two cameras at the same time is really unprofessional, causes lag, and makes the camera movement path look messy and unattractive.”

It's the way I track and zoom the scene for my animation. I have done this for more than 200 episode of my animations. You may have your own methods of working with Camera. However, using only a zoom camera would not make sense to me since most of the time, I need both zoom and track to capture the scene and the subject with the scenes. I don't know how could you use only zoom camera to work with a whole animation, but it you can do that, it would be strange to me.

Sounds like he's just uses track camera (4) to track in and out, instead of zoom. If you're not making a multi-plane set up, for parallax or depth of field at different z-depths, that would work.

Panha wrote: ↑Fri Sep 19, 2025 10:23 pm

“You only need to use Camera 4 to pan and zoom; there’s no need to use Camera 5. Using two cameras at the same time is really unprofessional, causes lag, and makes the camera movement path look messy and unattractive.”
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It's the way I track and zoom the scene for my animation. I have done this for more than 200 episode of my animations. You may have your own methods of working with Camera. However, using only a zoom camera would not make sense to me since most of the time, I need both zoom and track to capture the scene and the subject with the scenes. I don't know how could you use only zoom camera to work with a whole animation, but it you can do that, it would be strange to me.
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“Hold Alt + Camera 4 if you want to zoom, and release Alt if you want to pan or track the camera. This is a quick and efficient method without needing to use Camera 5. Even if you set the depth of the scene, using Camera 4 will not be affected.”
You can combine those two things in one camera number 4