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After Effects CC Camera Not Moving

New Here ,
Jul 01, 2015 Jul 01, 2015

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I just got After Effects CC with the free trial. It works mostly fine, but the camera won't move, even though I put and altered keyframes on the position, point of interest, and orientation. I have the view set to Active Camera. When I tried setting the view to front, the frame showed that the camera was moving and rotating, and the transformation settings say that it is too, but the Active Camera view says otherwise. Anyone know why?

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Jul 01, 2015 Jul 01, 2015

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Note that the camera only influences 3D layers. Maybe you have just 2D layers in your composition?

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects

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Jul 01, 2015 Jul 01, 2015

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If you are new to AE please type animating camera in the Search Help field and study some of the resources you will be pointed to. Basically if you create a solid, make it 3D and then add a camera and use the unified camera tool to move the camera around things will work just fine. If you didn't do that then you should study up a bit on how to animate a camera before you go any further.

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New Here ,
Aug 22, 2017 Aug 22, 2017

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I also had this issue. Double check that the little sun icon is unselected. I brought in vectors and selected this option and couldn't figure out why the camera would move but the objects wouldn't.This was why. Not sure why this happens though.

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Community Beginner ,
May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019

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For some reason I can't click the star to turn it off.

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New Here ,
Jul 10, 2021 Jul 10, 2021

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I can't turn it off either. Did you figure it out? If so, could you inform me on how?

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New Here ,
Nov 30, 2019 Nov 30, 2019

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thank you! that solved my problem!

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New Here ,
Mar 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021

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thanks, it solved my problem too!

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New Here ,
Jan 03, 2022 Jan 03, 2022

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This fixed my issue! Thank you!!

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Jul 10, 2021 Jul 10, 2021

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Community Beginner ,
May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022

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Sometimes you're not in Active Camera View. That little dropdown menu from the Composition Panel may be changed without notice to Front View. It seems like anything have changed, you may think still in Active Camera View, but you're not. Then you move the camera and nothing is moving like it should do. Very uncommon to happen, that's why even experienced users, may be wondering what's going on. 
If you create a new camera, you should not see the camera itself.

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New Here ,
Jun 08, 2022 Jun 08, 2022

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This was exactly the issue. Thanks so much - this comment saved hours of work 🙂

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New Here ,
Nov 03, 2022 Nov 03, 2022

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Thank's Bro

 

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Apr 12, 2023 Apr 12, 2023

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Thanks bro, I've some issue like this too

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Jun 09, 2023 Jun 09, 2023

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Thank-you! I was working on this for 2 hours...I did not know that the fix was this simple...Thank-you so much!

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Mar 21, 2024 Mar 21, 2024

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thx, this was my problem

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Apr 07, 2024 Apr 07, 2024

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Sep 05, 2023 Sep 05, 2023

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From reddit guy LetterKilled
I was just going to delete this but figured it might help someone out. Solution: Before creating or parenting object to the null, Auto-orientate the object first. Then parent to null. Honestly, it should work either way. But it won’t on my end

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