Blender-4.1/C2/Camera-View-Settings/English

Title: Camera View Settings

Author: Pooja Jha & Arthi Varadarajan

Keywords: blender 4.1, camera view, roll, pan, dolly, track, video tutorial.

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide Number 1 Title Slide	Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Camera view settings in Blender.
Slide Number 2 Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn to: Change the location of the camera to get a new camera view Roll, pan, dolly and track the camera view and Select a new camera view using the fly mode.
Slide Number 3 Software and System Requirements	To record this tutorial, I am using Mac OS version 14.5 Blender version 4.1 It is recommended to install Blender version 4.1 or higher.
Slide Number 4 Pre-requisites	To follow this tutorial, The learner must be familiar with the 3D viewport in blender.
Cursor on the interface.	I have already opened Blender. Let us see how to navigate the camera.
Hover the cursor on User Perspective, at the top left corner of 3D viewport.	By default, when Blender opens, the 3D viewport is in the User Perspective view.
Only Narration	Now, let’s switch to the camera view.
Click on View option Camera >> Active Camera	Go to the 3D viewport menu bar and click on View. A menu opens. Navigate to Cameras. From the sub-menu select Active Camera.
Press numpad 0.	For keyboard shortcut, press numpad 0.
Hover around the dotted box	We can now see the camera view. The dotted box around the cube is the field of view of the Active camera. All objects inside this box will be rendered.
Only Narration	Blender allows us to position the active camera. It also allows us to orient the active camera to match our current view point. Let’s see how to do this.
Video editor: Numpad 0	Press numpad 0 to go back to the perspective view.
Press 0 twice	The shortcut numpad 0 is a toggle to switch-to and from the camera view.
Hold the mouse wheel. Move the mouse.	Hold the mouse wheel or the middle mouse button. Then move the mouse wheel to rotate the camera view.
Only Narration	This will help us to change the location where we wish to place the camera.
Click on the cube	Make sure the cube is selected.
Video editor: Ctrl, Alt and Numpad 0	Press Ctrl, Alt and numpad 0 keys together.
Point to the camera.	Observe that the camera moves to the new location. Also, the 3D view switches to the camera view at the same time.
Only Narration	Blender also allows us to perform a few navigational actions on the camera. These are rolling, panning, tracking etc. We shall now look at these.
click on the dotted box.	Click on the dotted box to select the camera.
Only Narration	Now, we can manipulate the camera like we would manipulate any other object. Remember that to perform these actions we need to be in the camera view.
Only Narration	The first action we shall see is to roll the camera view.
Video editor: R	Press R on your keyboard to enter the object rotation mode.
Move your mouse left and right	Now move your mouse left to right and up and down.
Only Narration	By default this rotates the camera in its local z-axis. The local z-axis is an imaginary axis that goes in or out of the camera's view.
Video editor: Esc	Right click or press Esc on the keyboard to cancel the action.
Point to the view.	This will take you back to your previous camera view.
Only Narration	The next action we shall see is panning the camera view.
Hover left to right and up and down	Panning is in 2 directions – left to right or up and down.
Video editor: R. Video editor: X twice	Press R to enter the object rotation mode. Press X twice.
Only Narration	The first X locks the rotation to the global x-axis. The second X locks the rotation to the local x-axis.
Move the mouse up and down	Now move the mouse up and down.
Only Narration	The camera view pans up and down.
Video editor: Y twice	Press Y twice.
Only Narration	The first Y locks the rotation to the global y-axis. The second Y locks the rotation to the local y-axis.
Move the mouse left to right	Now move the mouse left to right.
Only Narration	The camera view pans left to right and vice versa.
Right click or Press ESc	Press Esc to go back to the previous camera view.
Only Narration	Next we shall dolly the camera.
Only Narration	Dolly supports moving the view-point to a different place. It also allows us to transport the view from one place to another. There are two ways to do this.
Video editor: G Move the mouse up and down.	First press G on the keyboard. Then hold the mouse wheel. Now, move the mouse wheel up and down. Right click to go back to the camera view.
Only Narration	In the second way, you can move the camera along its local z-axis.
Video editor: G Video editor: Z twice Move the mouse.	Press G on the keyboard. Then press Z twice to lock the camera to the local z- axis. Now, moving the mouse gives the same effect.
Right click	Right click to go back to the previous camera view.
Only Narration	Moving the camera along local X or Y axis tracks left-right or up-down motion.
Video editor: G Video editor: X twice Move the mouse left to right.	Press G. Now press X twice. Then move the mouse left to right.
Only Narration	The camera view tracks left to right and vice versa.
Right click	Right click to go back to the previous camera view.
Video editor: G Video editor: Y twice Move the mouse up and down	Now, Press G and press Y twice. Move the mouse up and down.
Only Narration	The camera view tracks up and down.
Right click	Right click to go back to the previous camera view.
Only Narration	Blender also provides a fly mode for the camera.
Video editor: Shift and Tilde(~)	Press Shift and Tilde keys to enter the camera fly mode.
Only Narration	When camera fly mode is ON then mouse movement pans the view accordingly.
Only Narration	Let us now use the keyboard shortcut keys as shown.
Video editor: W	Press W to zoom into the camera view.
Video editor: S	Press S to zoom out the camera view.
Video editor: A	On pressing A camera is moving to right side.
Video editor: D	On pressing D, camera is moving to left side. side.
Video editor: Q	Press Q, to shift the camera view upwards.
Video editor: E	Press E, to shift the camera view downwards.
Left click	Next, left click on the mouse to lock the camera view.
Only Narration	Observe that, now we see the new camera view. This brings us to the end of the tutorial.
Slide Number 5 Summary	Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we have learnt to Change the location of the camera to get a new camera view Roll, pan, dolly and track the camera view and Select a new camera view using the fly mode
Slide Number 6 Assignment	As an assignment, please do the following Add a cone to the right side of the cube Go to camera view Go to fly mode and zoom out the camera view Both cube and cone should be visible inside the camera view
Slide Number 7 About the Spoken Tutorial Project	The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it.
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Slide Number 11 Acknowledgement	Spoken Tutorial project was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
	This is Arthi along with Sejal from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for joining.

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