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:
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Skillshare
02:06 - Setup
09:42 - Bonus Tip!
11:45 - Outro
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[@overbeckstudios9964]

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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Wow I actually just needed this exact tutorial when you released it! Thanks a lot.

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Thank you. Very simple tutorial from one hand, but very useful from another.

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

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Your tutorials are so easy to follow. Thank you!

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Thank you for the detailed explanation!

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[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks for watching!

[@night.watcher]

The reason why the blueprint changes appearance, is that if the graph is empty, unreal will show a collapsed version the next time you open a blueprint. You can open the graph by clicking on open full editor at the top. If you add a single node to the graph and you close it, it will not collapse, because it's no longer empty

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Thanks for your work, great tutorial!

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I started as a beginner with Wiliam Fauchner and I am sure I will be virtually connected as long as he does tutorials. So great, so good explained!. Thank you so much!

[@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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Here we go again! Time for quality tutorials/tips and tricks. Thanks alot, William. 💯👍

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks for watching!

[@ZeeroCool1979]

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

[@georges8408]

Another excellent and straight to the point tutorial. Thanks

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best channel on you tube for unreal, couldnt have come at a better time! im rendering a 3 min walkthrough an apartment going up 2 flights of stairs and into each room of the apartment, this will work perfectly!

[@masslona]

Amazing and very detailed as always!

[@chomnansaedan4788]

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

[@patrickjesseman354]

Great stuff as usual! Thanks Will, very inspirational and motivational!

[@thatskysylvos]

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

[@lebombe8342]

Thanks as always William ! Great info

[@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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About your tutorials, the details, explanation and presentation everything is perfect. And mostly you cut the craps out and just come straight into the point. And you make tutorials which are essential for most of the people who are stepping into the world of unreal. Keep it coming bro.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks so much! That's the plan! ;)

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Love your tips men ! Thanx a lot very helpful and clear.

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Excellent tutorial!!!

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Very useful. Thanks for the help 🤝

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Thank you very much for this...was waiting for this

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

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Excelent way! Thanks William

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Thank you! Hope it helps!

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Thanks for this one, I used it in completely other way but the explanation was helpful anyways!

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Thank you for sharing your wisdom!!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers!

[@risnandarmultimedia5296]

thx.. really helpful tricks to direct the shake

[@MrFEARFLASH]

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

[@Enzait]

Great tip, will have to try it out!

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Thank You, William.

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always looking forward for your tips

[@StrongzGame]

thank you for this video!

[@MG_3D]

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

[@WilliamFaucher]

Interesting that you add it in post usually!

[@MG_3D]

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

[@MG_3D]

@@WilliamFaucher I won't be anymore:) I'm using the Blueprint. I love the MRQ but it does have some limitations...I cannot get cloth physics to render properly out of the MRQ. Even with motion blur at 1. But man the quality is insane..that second video you did is great!!

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Thank you William 🙏

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Thank you your videos really help us ♥️

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this tutorial is amazing!!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you!

[@mrhahn98]

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

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers! Happy to help!

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Really cool thanks!

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Cheers! Hope it helps!

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[@neo-giu]

3:50 It opens a more streamlined version because the Blueprint is data-only, it doesn't have any scripts or variables. At least that's what it says on the top of the screen :)

[@WilliamFaucher]

Haha yeah I'm just not sure why closing it and opening it again changes it!

[@neo-giu]

@@WilliamFaucher I think it just updates it according to how it was last used. Great tutorial btw, love your stuff!

[@chronosschiron]

and neat bit of this is you can go back to stuff and add the component shake like he shows to older stuff and compare which this makes for even more cool fun....

[@williamtolliver749]

@@WilliamFaucher I think the first time is to not confuse newer or inexperienced BP users, who are lookign for that EventGraph to edit. If they dont edit anything after opening it, I Guess it will default to the short version assuming that you dont need to write any blueprint code and only need to modify variables.

[@SohanZaman]

@@WilliamFaucher When you open the blueprint editor for the first time, unreal is still not sure what you want to do with it. When you close it without adding any nodes to the graph, unreal sees no graph and understands it as data only blueprint. You can still click "Open Full Blueprint Editor" and if any node is added then it will be no more a data only blueprint and show graph when you open it next time.

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Thanks so much!

[@SuperMyckie]

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🤙

[@arnehmusic]

Thank you!

[@loicscalbert]

Nice one! I was used to pick the matinee sequencer (which as you said, do the same), I'll give yours a try. In addition, I would add that : - you can have a control on the shake intensity directly in the sequencer, it allows to use one shake at multiple intensity and avoid instances. - you can also create shake for smaller duration than the entire shot and for really specific purpose, like for an explosion like an explosion or a vehicle passing close to the camera and then combine it with a second shake as you show here. Thanks for the content you provide!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks! Yeah the matinee one has a few other options, but overall it is more or less the same. It will depend on your needs really! Oh it's interesting you can control the intensity directly in Sequencer! Didn't know that, thanks!

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