How to save camera animation file

Unity Engine
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Hello, I mostly do editing and cinematography stuff and have no experience with unity. I wanted to make a trailer for a game my friend is creating and came across Cinemachine and have gotten used to it, but I don’t really understand how to save camera animation file.

I’m using Dolly Camera with Track feature from Cinemachine to create cinematics. I lay out my waypoints using the dolly cam and then use Vcam’s path position to animate it.
Now, how do I save Dollycam and Vcam so that I can edit the camera position if needed, or to send the file to my friend for him to view and record?

I understand that If I were to record using the main camera from unity, it would give me .anim file which I just need to drag and drop to camera again for it to play. But how to do it for 2 cameras?
Animating using Vcam’s path position saves Vcam positions, but what about the waypoints of dollycam?

I don’t know if I’m forgetting something, but please, guide me…

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I don’t quite understand your question. Dolly track and vcam are saved with the unity project, so you can always edit them later.

If you export the camera position for your friend (who presumably is not using Unity), then only the final generated animation of the camera is exported. You friend can still edit that. However, if your friend wants the source material that generated the animation (i.e. the dolly track and vcam), then your friend will need the Unity project.

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I’m loosing my words and don’t really know myself how to explain it in proper words. Sorry, haha…

So, while making my camera animation with Vcam and dollycam, it gives me this .anim file.
Now, how should I preview this .anim file? where should I place this file to preview my final camera animation?

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here are some links maybe they can help

basically just search the web or youtube for tutorials integrating the cinemachine and the Animator controller

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I watched the first link and it has cleared up a lot of stuff for me. Thank you! But still it doesn’t explain on how to export my final camera animation.

uh… I’m probably repeating myself, but how do I export my final camera animation that I have created?

my friend had created a forest project and sent it to me, so that I can work on Cinematics. I have created cines with the Dollycam and want to send those cines to him, so that he can view and record them.

don’t tell me I have to send him the whole project…