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July 1, 2015
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After Effects CC Camera Not Moving

  • July 1, 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?

Correct answer ozonas luis

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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izabela29132603n4hr
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September 5, 2023

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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ozonas luisCorrect answer
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May 25, 2022

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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    LeahAG
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    June 8, 2022

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

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      Byron CortezCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 11, 2021

      Animate a camera

      Byron.
      Sgalloway
      Sgalloway
      Participant
      August 22, 2017

      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.

        Laurizzle7
        Laurizzle7
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        May 21, 2019

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

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          default9772aup38f4h
          Participant
          July 10, 2021

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

            Mathias Moehl
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            Mathias MoehlCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            July 1, 2015

            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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              Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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              July 2, 2015

              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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