CameraOp is an After Effects panel that arranges your elements in 3D space, flies a camera tour through them, and bakes the move to render-ready keyframes — no expressions, no keyframe wrangling. Use it on its own, or let DataDriver drive it row by row.
9 layouts · one camera tour · one-button bake.
How it works
Pick one of nine spatial layouts and CameraOp arranges your elements in 3D space — no manual positioning, no null-wrangling.
Point the camera at the slots, set the order, choose a framing look. It flies between them with real easing and optional handheld life.
One button writes clean keyframes onto a dedicated camera layer — render-ready, zero expressions. Change your mind and re-bake.
Seven things CameraOp does so you don't keyframe by hand.
Grid, ring, helix, sphere, wave, scatter — drop dozens of 3D elements into place in one click. No nudging layers by hand.
Nine spatial layout generators (grid, ring/arc, strip, helix, scatter, random, sphere, wave, freeform) with content-fit auto-parameters.
Point the camera at your slots, set the order, pick a look — and it tours between them with real easing instead of a robotic snap.
Target choreographer with heading/pitch/track/dolly control, a keyframed target timeline, and an eased flythrough engine with curve preview.
One button turns the live rig into clean keyframes on a dedicated camera layer. Change your mind? Re-bake.
Non-destructive bake to static keyframes on a separate camera; the rig stays editable for re-bake. Zero expressions.
Layer in drift, handheld jitter, and a little breathing so a baked move reads like a real operator held it.
Procedural drift/shake/handheld presets with amplitude/frequency/mix, composited over any move and baked in.
Animate the arrangement itself — grid to ring — as a timed beat. The elements physically fly while the camera moves.
Layout morph between two arrangements as a timed transition, composable with the camera move and baked alongside.
Pair it with DataDriver and a single layout + camera tour renders every row of your data — each one framed and on-brand.
Over the Slot_N layer contract, DataDriver's batch replicate fills the tour's slots row by row; CameraOp supplies the move, DataDriver supplies the data.
Pick an edit — a dolly in, a turn with soft focus, a wide pull-out — and CameraOp makes one camera per shot, cut like a film. Four rules of film grammar hold every time.
One camera layer per shot, keyed per frame and trimmed to its range, so After Effects cuts at the in points; the 30° angle, size-change, 180° line and no-repeat rules are checked before anything is written; depth of field only on shallow shots.
New in 0.5.0
A tour is one camera on one long path. An edit is several cameras that cut from one to the next — a slow dolly in, then a turn with the background soft, then a wide pull-out. CameraOp ships five edits you can pick by name: Three-shot reveal, Turn and settle, Hero close-up, Quick cuts, and Documentary.
Every cut follows four rules an editor would: the angle changes by thirty degrees or more, the shot size changes, the cameras stay on one side of the scene, and no move repeats. Break one by hand and the panel says which rule, and waits.
Press Cut it. You get one camera per shot, trimmed so After Effects cuts at the right frame, markers at every cut, and a storyboard strip as the receipt. Shuffle rolls a new take. Clear puts your own camera back. Nothing else in the comp changes.
Nine ways to arrange a scene
Better together
Rig a scene in CameraOp — a spatial layout of slots and a tour that flies through them. Then let DataDriver pour your spreadsheet into those slots, one row at a time. One rig, one tour, hundreds of finished variations — each with its own text, images, and brand, all shot the same cinematic way.
Great for tours like these.
CameraOp ships alongside DataDriver. Download it, then sign in inside the panel; a person approves each request, usually within a day.