How to Add Camera Shake in Unreal Engine

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[@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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[@WilliamFaucher]

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[@SolomonJagwe]

Thanks!

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[@clkdiv3271]

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!

[@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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[@WilliamFaucher]

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

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miss your video so much ,and yet another exciting tutorial ! thanks !

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks so much! More to come!

[@mikhailbo8540]

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

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

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[@anastasiamakinmagic]

Great tutorial!! I LOVE how you get straight to it and cut out anything extra 💯💯 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@kingfatpat]

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!

[@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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Amazing tutorial, this was really helpful. You got a sub, I will look your older videos while waiting for more new ones.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks so much, and welcome to the community!

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Thank you for sharing your wisdom!!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers!

[@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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You are an awesome teacher, many people like me enjoy the way you're sharing your knowledge and experiences with us. The most valuable people in this world are those who teach others to improve and move forward. A big respect 🙏🏻

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This is so good. Honestly I'm just binging all of your videos right now as I learn my way around Unreal. Huge thanks for making this content for us all out here!

[@moleytv]

Really helpful. Thank you. You've really got this concise, but thorough tutorial thing down.

[@3dchick]

You're amazing! I can see so many uses for this, even that extreme one at the beginning felt organic, like it would feel on a boat. Or using the subtle ones, then adding a second or third at the right key frames for a heavy step or a bomb dropping in the distance or something. Soooo cool! Thank you again! (And I'm super happy you're getting sponsorships, too! Anything to help support your wonderful work and all you share with us! 😀

[@antxionrhykel2699]

Fantastic video William! Good timing too as I can use this in my project!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you! Hope it helps!

[@garimaverma8760]

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

[@phoneindustrydesign]

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

[@chomnansaedan4788]

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

[@alemandarino]

Great content William! Learning a lot! Keep'em coming! 👍👍

[@Oldman_Gamer2]

I want to share my trick for the opposite: BUTTERY SMOOTH rail follow. I find parenting a camera to a CameraRig_Rail, and using Lock Orientation to Rail causes jittery motion on corners. So what I do is create an empty actor and parent it to the rail too. Check Lock Orientation on the rail. On the camera, tick Enable Look At Tracking, and set the empty actor as the Actor to Track. Set Look At Tracking Interp Speed to 0.5 (or whatever smoothing you want). It that doesn't work, I duplicate the rail and attach the empty to the second rail. In sequencer I duplicate the keyframes from the original rail to the second, and then move them back in time a few frames. Uncheck Lock Orientation on both rails. Thanks for your videos, they have helped me more than anyone else's.

[@alexanderkartashov8776]

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

[@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.

[@basiccomponents]

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

[@gameswownow7213]

really helpful, and is better like this (separate from the other), 'cuz people like when tutorials are 10 mins. (the other 29 mins is great as well)

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks! I make the videos as long as they need to be. If I have a lot of content to cover, it's going to be longer. But there's no reason to make a video longer if it isn't necessary :)

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Your are our best Unreal dude ever thanks for all your videos !

[@urmcchromez9426]

Could you do a sequencer tuturiol ? I’d love to see your take on how you approach everything

[@NiceMonsterTV]

Love your tutorials! Thanks for making Unreal so enjoyable to pick up and create with.

[@JuanJC3D]

Your tutorials are so easy to follow. Thank you!

[@mrhahn98]

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

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers! Happy to help!

[@rubendelmoralaldana7013]

Thanks for your work, great tutorial!

[@lebombe8342]

Thanks as always William ! Great info

[@ZeeroCool1979]

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

[@lion_towers3d]

Super useful! Thanks! As a side note - is there any specific benefit with doing camera shake in-engine vs in post (in your video editing software for example)? Like, does it add natural motion blur from the camera movement itself etc...?

[@WilliamFaucher]

Oh yeah don't do that in post. This will add proper motion blur and parallax to your shot in Unreal. Best to get this right in the render. Doing it in post will also force you to crop and lose resolution.

[@lion_towers3d]

@@WilliamFaucher Thanks!

[@danielshamota]

Hey William, thanks for all the helpful videos. Do you know if it's possible to bake the camera shake somehow? I need to export the sequence to other DCC and comp together one element, but it exports without camera shake.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Your best bet would be with take recorder!

[@danielshamota]

@@WilliamFaucher thanks! The idea is to record the existing animated camera with the shake to new animation?

[@danielshamota]

@@WilliamFaucher I can't find a solution to record with the camera shake. I record in take recorder but it records without it, while the shake happens during the recording. Can you please tell what we are doing wrong?

[@damienmayoussier4447]

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

[@Enzait]

Great tip, will have to try it out!

[@urmcchromez9426]

your my favourite person to learn from! cheers.

[@georges8408]

Another excellent and straight to the point tutorial. Thanks

[@patrickjesseman354]

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

[@EnterMyDreams]

amazing! Thank you so much! What a wonderful tutorial

[@lioninaboxgames]

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

[@thatskysylvos]

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

[@neogiu000]

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!

[@neogiu000]

@@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.

[@kcgotfre]

Two questions - is this shake consistent every render, or is it random each time you hit play? And is it possible to bake this shake out to keyframes for export to other software?

[@Drakonial]

The shake is different every time, so all my rendered passes do not match :( what i have found out so far is a baking solution, but since i'm fairly new to unreal i dont fully understand what is described in this sentence: "Set up Level Sequencer asset into your scene. Select him and in details panel select “Autoplay”. Open Take Recorder window and place CineCamera in it. Start recording, press Alt+S or ( simulate ) and let sequence run. At the end, you have that transforms recored wich can be converted Level Sequence Template and you can apply it to your camera." Currently looking for a more step by step instruction on converting the recording and applying it to a camera

[@MrDavilawe]

thanks so much like always ! muchas gracias de verdad, nadie cuenta las cosas como tú

[@WilliamFaucher]

The pleasure is mine!

[@piotrekt186]

Best YT channel for me!

[@greenraptorinteractive4475]

This part at 6:47 will help us for our game, just some parts we are trying to get some sort of shaking like an earthquake type or just your normal building shake in some sort of random event.

[@dubtube6691]

great tutor, thanks William 👍

[@shinjik4797]

I am looking for this kind of shake control for actors. How can I add noise to the curve? Thank you for the instruction!

[@Tank.3d]

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

[@devm3240]

Amazing exactly what I was waiting for.

[@blueberrypillars6765]

Thank you so much, William!

[@leifthorsen4040]

Great bonus tip! Smart

[@chosenonemedia8337]

Very Nice as always!

[@rashad1916]

Excellent tutorial!!!

[@zloiser]

Thank you! 👍

[@WilliamFaucher]

You're welcome!

[@masslona]

Amazing and very detailed as always!

[@jerichoyang243]

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

[@MrFEARFLASH]

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

[@ege.the.engineer]

Hi, I'm using unreal engine 5.1, I created the same exact blueprint but there is no option for adding the camera shake bp in the sequencer's camera component. there is only *Attach* *Event* *Path* *Transform* and *Template Sequence* options available on my camera component. How can I fix that ? any idea

[@ege.the.engineer]

Okay, I fixed it, the issue was the camera component was spawned by the sequencer, so I created another cinecamera actor and placed it into the sequencer in order to solve it.

[@risnandarmultimedia5296]

thx.. really helpful tricks to direct the shake

[@StrongzGame]

thank you for this video!

[@jumpingguyproductions]

Works great. Thank you!

[@ZAKarchitects]

Can i make a zoom while shaking the camera and link zoom effect to a button with focus in a play mode?

[@WilliamFaucher]

Through a blueprint your could, sure

[@lubruz7164]

You videos are amazing! keep making this tutorials, I love you channel.

[@fabianoperes2155]

Anazing tutorial once more. Just keep them coming. I love your work.

[@maxpownall1813]

Question: Have you managed to blend 2 camera shakes together in sequencer? I am trying to imitate the effect of a camera shaking more while moving, then settling down once static (makes sense right?) but it doesn't seem UE4 has the same blending functionality that animations have in the sequencer, any ideas? Love what you do and the way you do it :) Thank you so much

[@kyanhudson6831]

Haven’t watched the full video yet but what’s the different between this and using a virtual camera to do it your self?

[@WilliamFaucher]

Well, not everyone has virtual camera set up. And sometimes you already have you camera animation done, and you just want to add a procedural shake to it. Virtual Cam is nice but sometimes it's easier /simpler/faster to work with keyframes instead

[@Suthriel]

As far, as i can see, the virtual camera seems to rely on LiveLink, which is only available for IOS, no Android version seems to exist yet. And thats a real problem, because in Europe, Android is pretty big, IOS not so much.

[@WilliamFaucher]

@@Suthriel You CAN get it on Android, pretty sure Winbush made a tutorial for android virtual cam. Could be wrong of course.

[@Suthriel]

@@WilliamFaucher That would be interesting, because almost all Google results say, Live Link is for iOS/Apple only. Will check Winbush out, how he managed to do it for android. Edit: Seems to be a different plugin, not Live Link, but seems to do the same thing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnKqqaVrfManqpo

[@kuntalbiswas2685]

Very useful. Thanks for the help 🤝

[@suneilangel]

This is truly a very helpful video. Thanks for that.

[@oxygencube]

Excellent! Great job man!

[@artembeliakov5412]

Great work!!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you!

[@ElectricElephantAgency]

Thanks for this. You are always very helpful.

[@artemlt]

Excelent way! Thanks William

[@AArz-mq4ts]

Thank you very much William for the tutorial, very helpful :) Do you happen to know for. Way to fade the shake effect in an amount? Currently blend in/out times don't seem to make a difference I could have separate camera shakes overlapping to create a blending effect, but wanted to see if you know of an easier way, thank you!

[@romanshipulin6437]

Great educational content!😊