What is Cinemachine and Timeline

Cinemachine:

Cinemachine is a tool from unity.It frees you from expensive camera-logic development and allows you to iterate and prototype new ideas on the fly while saving settings in play mode. From first-person shooter to follow cam, from 2D to 3D, from real-time play to cutscene, Cinemachine camera modules have been perfected over many years.

Cinemachine is your virtual DP, knowing where to aim and focus. Experiment with dollies, tracking, shake and post-FX in real-time. It’s procedural, so changes just work. Animation changes after layout are no problem — Cinemachine knows how you want your shots and dynamically adjusts, even if the performances change. Cinemachine won an Emmy for revolutionizing the field of cinematography.

Cinemachine offers an abundance of powerful features. Targeting, transposing, grouping, noise, post-processing integration, split screen, mixing, blending, and more.

Timeline

Unity Timeline is an integrated editing suite with a multi-track interface that allows you to create scenes quickly. Film editors use film editing tools like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut. Unity Timeline gives game developers and filmmakers the power of similar film editing tools within the Unity engine.

With Unity Timeline, developers can:

• Create cut-scenes.
• Create and manage scenes with a graphical UI.
• Create transitions between animations and scenes.

If Cinemachine can make multiple angle to present the perfect sides of your game work, then timeline is your solid planner to present these beautiful frames under your control.

With these two powerful tools, Unity would be no longer a simply game engine, it could become a perfect animation creator if you can handle it.

You will be a director, cinemagraphor, film editor, and a VFX supervisor while holding these tools!