Is it intended that if you are working with spawnable cameras, when you create a camera, before piloting your camera, you need to have the Frame-position being already set to where you want to create a Key, because if you first pilot the camera, and drag the timeline afterwards - it will result in some “invisible” and unwanted transform keyframes created.
If it is intended, then why they are invisible?
Currently the only way i know to workaround it - is to delete 2 tracks: the cameraActor track and the Camera Cuts track, then to recreate the spawnable camera. If it will not help, then reopen the project.
Today i probably even experienced those unwanted, invisible keyframes being created right after creating the spawnable camera, so to avoid it, it is better to work in the following order:
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slide timeline (to the frame position, at which you want to create a Keyframe)
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set the viewport to the view, how you would want to pilot the camera
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click the “create new camera” from the sequencer toolbar
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create a keyframe in a single click or by a hotkey
of you change the order (especially swap between 1 and 2), then you may experience issues with those annoying unwanted, invisible transform keyframes, which will take additional time and efforts to workaround.
I think, that spawnable cameras should completely ignore any transform actions and any actions related to the timeline, until a user actually, intetionally creates a keyframe (by clicking on the UI or by a hotkey). In any other cases camera movements and timeline dragging shoul not be “remembered”, only intentional, visible keyframes should matter.
Edit:
to add more to it:
Another similar issue:
Whenever you have some piloted-view and you create a first Keyframe, then you drag timeline to, say, 150-200 frames forward and create a second Keyframe (with still the same viewport view, same transform, as the first Keyframe). You expect the camera to not move between those keyframes (because you wanted to have some pause on that Character or object, before moving camera elsewhere), but instead the result is, that the camera will “swing” (a bit) in the air, if you watch at the Transform values in the left side of the Sequencer, you will notice, that at the first Keyframe the values are intended, then in the middle between those keyframes - the values are furthest away from the expected, then the second half (starting from middle and ending at the second Keyframe) you can notice that the Transform values smoothly change to the expected values. So those values only match at the Keyframes, but they do not match in any frame in-between those keyframes. So, again, happens some kind of invisible, unwanted keyframes. To work around it, i copy transform keyframe, then i delete second keyframe, put timeline-position at second keyframe’s location and with Right Mouse Button i choose “Paste > Transform” there (this way it will work as expected).
