How to animate transition between cameras?

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I have camera 1 and I have camera 2… How to make animated transition from 1 to 2 then wait for 1s and then go back from 2 to 1???

EDIT: I mean moving transition from camera 1 position and view angles to camera 2 positions and view angles. Like combined transition and rotation from one camera to another…
OR: any way how to move camera from one position to another and back to first one with pause of few seconds in second position?
It should be something like:

  1. full assembly view
  2. zoom in on detail
  3. animation of detail
  4. zoom out to full assembly view
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In the camera tab select cam1 right click>animate>switch event and select cam2
then select cam2 right click>animate>switch event and select cam1

and on the animate panel set the timing for switch animations.

here is how is done.

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That is switching… I am asking about animated transition from one camera to another… like transition form one to another that last few seconds.

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Can you share a sample of it?

If you’re asking for something like fade-out cam1 and fade-in cam2, it is not possible as I know.
You can animate and render your scene and you can add transitions on after effects or something.

If you can give more details about what kind of transition you look for I or someone can help.

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I edited first post with better explanation.

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As I understand it, you want something like this

If so, you can create path/zoom/dolly/translation animations for the camera (you can only add one path animation to each camera) and add another camera to the endpoint if needed, which you can then animate in the new view.

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My problem was returning to same point after pause on second camera position.
I figured it out.

  • Camera 1 - make animation path
  • select second camera and click add new control point twice so you get two same points in path window
  • select Closed path and confirm
  • in animation properties, set motion easy to custom and make two additional points on curve.
  • set these points to time you like and 0.5 value and turn tangent handles to get flat line between two middle points.
  • Now you have movement that will pause in second position for some amount of time and then go back to point 1.
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If you want to go from point 1 to point 2 and follow the same path reverted you can mirror the path animation you created. You can save a couple of steps.

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I do not have that option for camera path moving.

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Yeah, sorry, me neither. I thought the mirror command is available for all animation types.