Cutting Between Multiple Cameras - Blender Tutorial

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A common question from the Blender Cookie Blog: "How Do I..." post revolves around jumping from one camera to another in Blender. This ability is valuable to simulate real-world filming techniques. For example, an animator can animate an entire conversation between two characters straight-through, then cut between multiple cameras like they do on a film set. Also in the case of rendering stills, multiple cameras can be set up and animated to switch on each frame, resulting in multiple stills from different angles while simply clicking "render" once.
What you will learn
The significance of Blender's active camera.
How to quickly set the active camera when multiple cameras exist in a scene.
And finally, how to "keyframe" the active camera by binding it to timeline markers.
CC Attribution: "PICT0060" by Karen Eliot

[@TheCobyRandal]

In Blender 2.8, you don't even need to add markers anymore. Simply select your camera, make it active (Ctrl+NumPad0), and (here's the tricky part) mouse over timeline down low where the markers appear. Ctrl+B. Your camera is now bound to that frame onward. You can bind more cameras and move them around on the time line.

[@vscapetv2937]

Thanks for this. You have helped me very much.

[@user-fd9mn8jx3r]

You don't even need to make them active (but it's usefull hotkey, thanks), just select them and Ctrl+B over timeline

[@TheCobyRandal]

@@user-fd9mn8jx3r Woo! Thanks! I just tried it and it works great in 2.83.2

[@white-devil.07]

Thank you 🐰😃

[@hardlife3844]

So could I bind all cameras to a single frame and render out? I'm thinking about audio sync later and not sure if it makes any difference

[@graphicdefine4]

starts at around 3:29 for those looking to know how to set camera markers.

[@zevac]

thank you

[@ProfessorOfHow]

Thanks man. It helped.

[@scottlee38]

Thanks bro! I'm getting close to animation for my project, so these animation tuts are really helping!

[@AGrandeArte]

Do not stop the videos ... they are fantastic!

[@teddysilversky3173]

I "Liked it," saved it and subscribed to, definitely, say thank you for the helpful tutorial. I learned! 2 years later your tutorial is still relevant.

[@nunyabiznez4408]

good stuff, thank you cg cookie!!

[@dloading9525]

really makes sense, thank you so much, save the day!

[@keiannesancho8717]

Thank you! for clear explanation

[@melbendigo]

Excellent video! Thank you!

[@TheRealLink]

Immediate like and sub sir. Clear and concise explanation and it certainly now made me go "Ah ha!" when seeing other renders with bound cameras to all seamlessly continue for one animation render. I now needed to do that for a client and these tips worked perfectly, thank you!

[@TTTristan1]

Exactly what I was looking for!

[@TomasMcAdam]

Thanks for this. Very well explained.

[@starlord7219]

Thanks so much!

[@user-iv9ky2ko5c]

Thank you!

[@TheArabianHunter]

SSS simple, straight and short thanks

[@BlenderBeanie]

neither simple, could have just told you what to do, not straight, tutorial started 3:30, short? tutorial lasted 4:45 minutes to tell me "hover over timeline, press m to set marker, select camera, press ctrl numpad delete to make it active, hover over timeline, press ctrl b to bind camera" but i cannot blame him at all, its the time he was beginning with youtube, so its all fine. Maybe im just used to the modern CGC that is way better than that usefull tutorial yes, but just not Sub-Surface Scattering

[@funkypartyweasel]

Nice one, just what I needed.

[@EsesinforLearning]

Thanks much, very helpful

[@alexdib3915]

thank you!

[@vipergx]

was looking for this. was not disappointed in this. thanks

[@alexzinoni9137]

Thanks a lot! This video was very helpful👌👍

[@ialman2]

tks men really well explained

[@markozaror3532]

Great tutorial...

[@titociiku8969]

Thank you

[@TwinkleB12]

Learned a new thing .... Thank you so much...

[@the_alec941]

Thanks!

[@jesperjee]

Great! This will save alot of time! Thank you!

[@deadalus1991]

Thank you very much :D

[@amritanandpathak1112]

thank you

[@bryanxsologame]

thanks a lot bro

[@jacobokpara7618]

Thank you so much...

[@deividcm2]

still works the same way, very helpful

[@bertani6134]

Nice !!!

[@animatewithblender315]

That was really helpfull

[@DaToTao]

Thanks bro, that's just what I need

[@b0gie]

THANK YOU!!!!!

[@tahsinhaider9770]

THANKS

[@MIDesignkeralahousedesign]

Thanks

[@hafidh26]

thanks

[@R-Tex.]

Thankssssss

[@rishabhchaudhry6933]

this i a life saving

[@marksevastipol1946]

thankyouuuuu

[@5hree]

finallly i know i can use multiple cameras.. thank you!

[@Numocron]

Wow this is an awesome Blender tutorial I love it. :)

[@lucashaymaker5927]

HALLELUJAH!! Thank you so much!! I had my camera active to a cylinder, which I didn't realize and that was way my camera wasn't working. Thank you ❤❤

[@enragedvicky6317]

how much you earning from animation.

[@lucashaymaker5927]

@@enragedvicky6317 sadly zero

[@enragedvicky6317]

@@lucashaymaker5927 most of us have the same issue i wish you can earn from blender as soon as possible.

[@lucashaymaker5927]

@@enragedvicky6317 Thanks, in the meantime all we can do is work on improving our art skills :)

[@user-wj2ez2zo3m]

Can you tell me how to make the camera switch look smoother? There is an animation of camera 1 transitioning to camera 2，It would be cool if one could seamlessly blend between cameras, not just instantly switch between them.

[@SuperBoyGamer1]

so I am trying to make my scene change cameras and I did this, it says the active camera changes in the scene tab but the cameras don't change in the 3d view port, I'm wondering if that will affect my render or not, should I be worried or not?

[@PonteRyuurui]

Jesus tap dancing Buddha, finally someone who knows how to fucking teach, brilliant video

[@stevehardie8109]

Once there are bound cameras in the timeline, is it then possible to render a single camera pass of the whole animation, which would require temporarily disabling the bound camera?

[@fidalium3d845]

CG Cookie is awesome, giving tips that is helping me create more 3D models. Thanks a lot. Just hoping my new channel becomes as good as CG Cookie.

[@ArmaniusArt]

Why do you use the old version 2.73 of Blender?

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

Must have recorded a while ago.

[@kingsridge]

Great video! However, I'm using blender 2.9 - - and it seems like my camera markers only work in the default workspace tab (not modeling, layout, etc.). Either I never noticed this or I've made a user mistake, not sure which at this point. Was just wondering how to fix it and\or if anyone else experienced the same issue. Thanks!

[@funcrafts7663]

im using 2.9 too

[@StephenDdunguMusic]

Or you could use the same camera and change its position 1 frame after the previous position.

[@simonthe-light2632]

hey why you are using older version of blender??

[@pavanbhadaja8859]

What if I want to transition in animation through one camera to other like there is step interpolation but what if I want to do smooth interpolation. How can I do that

[@kendarr]

You're gonna have to keyframe that

[@Holobrine]

If you wanted to interpolate between cameras, that’s equivalent to simply animating one camera’s motion.

[@user-wj2ez2zo3m]

Can you tell me how to make the camera switch look smoother? There is an animation of camera 1 transitioning to camera 2，It would be cool if one could seamlessly blend between cameras, not just instantly switch between them.

[@AristarhSisy]

100000000000 LIKES!

[@urielromanillos2750]

hi i binded the camera to the marker but the camera turns into the rig

[@random2059]

why some websites say....the distance between the camera and the 2D frame (we want to show the viewers) should be one unit... but then how will we create 3rd person view of a seen in that case the camera is always at certain angle to the frame .... am i right.... please reply....?? www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/ray-tracing-generating-camera-rays/generating-camera-rays?www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/3d-viewing-pinhole-camera/how-pinhole-camera-works-part-1?

[@MrGustavier]

5:27 "I don't really know what kind of interpolation that would be" there are many ways to transition one sequence into another in movie editing, cut, dissolve, wipe, fade etc... is there a quick way to do these in blender ?

[@disappear1234]

Try blender bust it will render all the camera you want with on click

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

I'm so used to broken English on the Blender videos that I thought you were trying to say: "Tried Blender, but [it couldn't] render all the cameras" That's an addon, though. Will have to check.

[@michelarcange3150]

thank you !

[@deepakjamra5502]

Thank you

[@Mujtabahassan1]

thanks