Unreal Engine 5 Filmmaking Tips Part 5 Camera Rig Rail

[@justinmarch5095]

Thanks!

[@Jsfilmz]

yo u dont have to give me tip errtime lol

[@justinmarch5095]

🤣

[@TALLI2]

I just want to add to anyone trying to make a circle with splines. you only need four points in each ''corner'' then drag the tangents (the two curvature adjusters on the point) straight as a whistle until they intersect each other making a cube around a circle path

[@АннаЛысякова-у3о]

In order not to take so many keyframes, you can press plus on the camera and then press lookat tracking settings - lookat - enable look at tracking.

[@Jsfilmz]

@@АннаЛысякова-у3о bro i literally made this 2 years ago lol you know how much has changed

[@orderanycars101]

I needed this. Thank you a million as always. Will be looking at second part as well.

[@Jsfilmz]

yw bro!

[@serhiipes]

If you want to create a perfect circle camera rotation around the character, I think, the easiest way is to create a null in the center of character, locate camera on some distance from the character and link the camera to null. And you can create animation like this just rotating and change the position of null. I mean same way as in this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGq0fmCBrpyHirM

[@3DRamenArt]

SICCKK!! i can't wait to create my own shorts :D

[@benjaminfreitag9231]

Attaching cine camera with rig as parent doesn't attach the camera to the rail, they just move together

[@norman191000]

@JSFLIMZ - okay, now how to add a nice shake to this kind of cam movement?

[@Jsfilmz]

i made a simple preset for cam shake but store has some

[@FunkdUpOfficial]

exactly what i was looking for ! thanks bro amazing stuff you are sharing

[@st.michaelthearchangel7774]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@siete-g4971]

excellent tutorial, thank you

[@EthanCasner]

Hey man. So i can't add new splines like you showed at 1:10 because holding left alt and left mouse just rotates the camera around an arbitrary point and doesn't affect the actual rail as you're showing. What's up with that?

[@petertulipan1222]

Is there a way to link the two ends of the spline so that the circle is unbroken? This would be helpful for having the camera circle the object continuously without any jumps or glitches. Thanks!

[@wowersdh1]

4:26 when I parent camera to rail and press render, camera parenting is automatically separate with rail, which camera won't following rail :(

[@KingofBuilders]

Thank you very much!

[@Jsfilmz]

yw!

[@artadecram_9624]

Ok Thanks but i noticed that your rail circle has no enough quality - can we take perfect circle as a path for camera fom plugin modeling/shapes?

[@justinmerced]

Amazing tut 🙌🏽 thank you

[@Jsfilmz]

thanks bro! more coming

[@arkemal]

Very clear, excellent tutorial, thanks! I've got a blueprint actor with an animation (interpToMovement and changing color of a Point Light) Is there a way to trigger the Event begin play of that Blueprint (that's already present on the scene) the same time as when the sequencer starts playing?

[@arkemal]

found my answer with Event Tracker

[@brunocerkvenik]

Is there any sort of target constraint for the camera so that you don't have to manually key it? So that the camera would always look at the object.

[@williamtolliver749]

Look At Rotation. Select it in the 'Details" panel, wen you have the CineCam selected and make sure you key it to the Sequence track. You can set small adjustments from there with the "offsets" panel in the details >> under Look At Settings..

[@plasticmayhem7141]

i thought you were some new tutorial guy into metal was gonna ask to collaborate haha then im like wait its that guy jsfilmz

[@27kmaster]

what asset pack is that please?

[@pugsan]

Great tips.

[@Jsfilmz]

thanks!!

[@pugsan]

@@Jsfilmz Hey, would you mind telling me your system specs? I'm in the midst of building and I haven't decided if I'm going for a 16 core Ryzen or 12th Gen i9. I have one 3080 ti and will purchase a 2nd and have 64 RAM and a 1000 Watt PS.

[@IronfinInc]

Loved this one. Could you explain a little more the benefit of the rail vs. free animating the camera. I've always just done the camera on it's own. Is it simply being able to see the path better?

[@Jsfilmz]

i free hand quite a bit actually but some people are much more precise than i am and like to see the path

[@pto2k]

For me it is easier to iterate and reuse.

[@maxchiassonart8869]

Awesome!! So after that, how do you export it as a movie? Camera cuts..adding cinematic actor camera It doesnt follow the rail. How do you work that out so that you can export a movie. Very stuck here:/

[@maxchiassonart8869]

ok! figured it out!! SO!! If you want to make a render you have to make a camera and parent the rail BEFORE you open the sequencer. Strange but it wont work otherwise. just turn off the sequencer. attach the camera. then get the sequencer back and drag your camera in there. This took a while to figure out.

[@nekomimi-kun618]

Can you have a camera switch between rails while following a character and have its rotation control the direction of a locally applied force?(Artificial Gravity)

[@kromide3d]

Dear Jae, how can I make a camera focus on a specific object in unreal - while the camera itself is moving ? In blender - the camera can be made to track to items just by specifying them and it will be locked on that object regardless of its own position.

[@Jsfilmz]

ill have a tut its super easy

[@kromide3d]

@@Jsfilmz You are the best :)

[@PinkDolphin343]

which asset pack is use in this video?

[@Jsfilmz]

gothic temple

[@kairu_b]

Very nice

[@7_of_1]

Hey Mr. J. Having real trouble with 4.27 and rendering crashes, so after 3 months gonna try UE5 again. The thing is, no matter where I ask, nobody has a set of MRQ settings for it. Just watched the Aaron Simms Unreal 'The Eye video' where they said they had help with Epic with theirs, but No DETAIL. So, I'm just askin, do you know where? You can count this as my one and only ask lol, cause at the moment, the format drives option is in my head every 5 minutes. I've managed to walk away now for a few weeks but it's seriously getting me. I will happily buy the course if it's in there.

[@Jsfilmz]

man thats tough rendering crashes can be a million different things. 4.27 is alot stable than 5 i can tell you that. also specs would help

[@arkemal]

Is anyone having issues when exporting the video from the sequence? My camera is weirdly not moving, whereas when I play it in the sequencer, everything works fine

[@Jsfilmz]

3 words Camera cut track is not selected

[@arkemal]

@@Jsfilmz thanks, I'll check that and confirm it if it fixes it

[@arkemal]

@@Jsfilmz The camera cut tracks was missing indeed! Thanks for the tips

[@georges8408]

I have a question that noone have answered yet. Is it possible to combine cameras shots from different levels/maps in a one master sequence ? I mean lets say we have 2 maps imported in a project... the first a cyberpunk map, the second a medieval map... I take shots from each map, but I cannot combine them in a one sequencer. Every time I drop the camera shots in a master sequence it retains their attributes but it project the image of the current level/viewport and not the one from the map it was created... is there any way to make a video with various shots from various map inside unreal engine project ?

[@Jsfilmz]

nah maybe if they are on same level and your using bp to switch them since u can have multiple levels in one map. Prolly a headache though better cutting in post

[@cinemyscope6630]

Yes you can do that! You need to have both levels loaded. Next to the Details panel open the levels panel and add existing. There can be issues with this though. You need to warm the shots up prior to rendering. I've had some headaches with this and in the end I rather render out shots and assemble in Resolve, but it is possible to do it in the engine if you need to and are willing to fiddle around with it.

[@kiukle]

So how would you change the speed of the camera running on the rails? Is there a speed option? Or do you just have to space out the already set keyframes further from each other and stretch the sequence out?

[@kevdmiller]

I was wondering the same thing...how to stretch multiple keys out automatically, rather than moving them manually..

[@toxichatter5853]

How would you do with this with a plane, using a green screen of some one? Considering the plane is flat and when going in a circle will show that it’s flat.

[@IamNeighborlee]

wth, when I add camera to rail instead of placing right on rail, it shows up far off into distance, tho first time I did it it was fine,is this a ue5 bug ? tgy

[@rec-trick]

how to rec sequence with wasd ?

[@harshitology3498]

awesome

[@armondtanz]

Wish theyd hav a pen tool like Illustrator or Photoshop. Or even import eps/Ai then it follows the spline. A bit fiddly this method.

[@Jsfilmz]

pen support would be nice

[@omassi]

When I render the animation it render just the camera and not the rail movement...

[@poochyboi]

there has to be simpler way to do a circular animation around an object...

[@Jsfilmz]

thousand ways to skin a squirrel bro of course

[@PedroSerraDM]

Hey... Really cool video but why do all Unreal Engine Gurus are so damn fast explaining things? We just have to pause the video from time to time to get the feel at things lol... Great Video nontheless... Cheers and Thanks

[@Jsfilmz]

its hard man statistics peoples attention span is much lesser now so u have to be quick to the point or you will lose them

[@PedroSerraDM]

@@Jsfilmz makes sense...

[@fastboot2549]

Bro, U R Genius🏂

[@music_creator_capable]

200 air dollars

[@Jsfilmz]

lol;

[@elfillari]

Me popin from a real world. One stupid question; is this animation for real movies in real world OR just in artificial battlefield world only? You're like teenage pimples in their fifties forever, no fence my friend 😅😅😅