Answers.Body: <p>Dolly moves your camera closer to the object.
  Scale makes an object bigger. They're not the same thing.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: You're writing about the camera, but the Camera layer is not even created. I just turned on the 3D mode.
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Answers.Text: In that situation where there is no camera, AE just uses your viewpoint. As soon as you add a camera, AE uses that. You'd have more success watching a beginner's guide to AE than asking each question on here piecemeal.
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Answers.Text: This is old, but it's a great solid understanding of how AE works, and has a section on 3D stuff: https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/
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Answers.Text: there is one question left, what does dolly to camera poi tool? Adobe writes that there is POI only for two-node cameras. Looks like this option should work only for two-node cameras
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Body: <p>Looks like Dolly works like Scale, just increase the size of the object. So, what really does Dolly?</p>
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Title: What does Dolly do in AE?
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ThreadText: # What does Dolly do in AE?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-04-27)
  
  Looks like Dolly works like Scale, just increase the size of the object. So, what really does Dolly?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-04-28. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  Dolly moves your camera closer to the object.
  Scale makes an object bigger. They're not the same thing.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: You're writing about the camera, but the Camera layer is not even created. I just turned on the 3D mode.  
  > **username_1**: In that situation where there is no camera, AE just uses your viewpoint. As soon as you add a camera, AE uses that. You'd have more success watching a beginner's guide to AE than asking each question on here piecemeal.  
  > **username_1**: This is old, but it's a great solid understanding of how AE works, and has a section on 3D stuff: https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/  
  > **username_0**: there is one question left, what does dolly to camera poi tool? Adobe writes that there is POI only for two-node cameras. Looks like this option should work only for two-node cameras  
  
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