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Jrex
03-26-2008, 11:34 PM
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good camera manager for XSI. I've been using ZooShots for Maya at work, and would love to use a tool like that in XSI at home. Basically, I'd like to use a new camera for every shot, but have one camera to view all of them sequentially.
Thanks for any help you can point me to!

thiago
03-27-2008, 03:25 PM
did you see this one? http://community.softimage.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=12

kim aldis
03-28-2008, 04:10 AM
there's also a fuller article here:

http://kim-aldis.co.uk/drupal-6.1/node/7

Jrex
03-28-2008, 03:07 PM
Thanks for the idea! I never really thought about using the mixer for camera cut switching; very clever! I will definitely look into that.
I don’t usually use camera interests, however, so hopefully I can get around that by just making the interest a child of the camera.
I like the idea of adjusting time for camera cuts by using clips; my only concern is that I may have issues adjusting camera positions/rotations after they’ve been put into the mixer. Either way, this could be what I’ve been looking for!
Thanks again!

kim aldis
03-28-2008, 03:28 PM
it becomes a fair bit easier without the interest. The scripted hoop jumping is because 'remove animation' means 'remove animation and constraints' and the interest gets trashed. You should find it easy to modify that script to save just the camera rotations and path, or if you don't want to use a path then it's just a straightforward store action. The path is nice though because it gives a visual cue and it makes shifting start and end points of the move a piece of wossname.