How to Add Camera Shake in Unreal Engine

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This tutorial covers how to set up and use a procedural camera shake blueprint in just minutes in Unreal Engine. This applies to both Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5!
Shaky Cam is one of those things that are either extremely desireable, or absolutely awful. You could always keyframe the camera shake yourself, but having a procedural, additive approach is way easier to set up.
This tutorial was made in Unreal Engine 4.27, but can be done in earlier versions of Unreal (4.25, 4.26) by using the Matinee Shake I show in this tutorial. The same should apply to UE5.
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Timestamps:
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00:52 - Skillshare
02:06 - Setup
09:42 - Bonus Tip!
11:45 - Outro
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Great tutorial William, I’ll definitely be using this, thank you. I saw there’s a camera shake option in ue5 on the cinematic toolbar.

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Another amazing tutorial. Small details can chance any video to feel much more natural. Thanks!

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Another excellent and straight to the point tutorial. Thanks

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Thanks a ton. I had no idea about the new CameraShakeBase. Excellent

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Exactly what I was looking for, very clear and informative, thank you!

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much needed tutorial!! Thanks @William Faucher for this amazing content..

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This was amazing and so simple to follow! Thank you so much

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this is even more simple then i thought, ty ^^

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great tutorial as always, and i really enjoy your videos. many thanks

[@sadowolf]

Fantastic tutorial! It's clear, concise, and straight to the point. I just seriously started diving into Sequencer recently, and I actually animated some camera shake manually, and that was a big NOPE haha. I knew there was a much easier way to do it, probably through a plugin or blueprints, and this tutorial is exactly what I wanted and needed. Got yourself a subscriber. Regarding the blueprint opening/re-opening thing, I believe the simple explanation is that it's because you didn't populate the Event Graph, add any variables, functions, etc. the first time you opened and closed it. Because of that, UE4 figured "Well you didn't touch the Graph Editor (or any of the other tools on the left-hand column) and saw fit to close it, so you probably don't need it for this blueprint," and opens it in a data-only state, which is all that's needed for the purpose of this tutorial.

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thx.. really helpful tricks to direct the shake

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Works great. Thank you!

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Thanks! Very useful video! I just wanted to start looking for how this can be implemented! Thanks to!))

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Thank you so much for this!

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Thank You, William.

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Excelent way! Thanks William

[@SolomonJagwe]

Oh man, what a timely video William!! Thank you!!! I was just playing with this and you have made it way easier to understand, I love that you can actually stack the camera shakes. As a photographer and cinematographer, this opens up so many possibilities of translating real world techniques into the Unreal Engine workflow. Thank you so much again!!! Time to go Shake!!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks Solomon! It really is nice to have, and I love the procedural nature of it. Enjoy!

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Thank you William 🙏

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Thanks for the tip on double camera shakes, its subtle but really make a difference

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Cheers! Happy to help!

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Hello Will.. fantastic content from you.. thanks for the efforts.. good job... @the need to close and reopen the BP Class... it isn't a bug actually, and u dont have to close to reopen it... when u create the BP Class and open it thag 1st time, by the right hand side of the window, You'd see the Details parameters for your use.. the open graph screen in the middle is for adding complexities to your class functions... good job mate🤙

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Thanks for this William! I always add the camera shake in Resolve but needed this for the "Better Light Than Never" Challenge.👍💡

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Interesting that you add it in post usually!

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​@@WilliamFaucher Well, I probably won't be anymore after using the in engine shake..way nicer. Thanks again.

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