How to easily record First Person Camera motion during gameplay?

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Hi there all,

I’ve been trying to record the camera motion of my First person Camera during Gameplay for Cinematics but all my attempts and previous discussions on the forum haven’t helped.

The only close solution which I found is to record (with Take recorder) the player perspective and then copy the keyframes of the camera of the recorded sequence into a new level sequence, but the keyframes somehow don’t translate correctly in the cine camera despite both cameras (original and destination) are both attached to the head bone of their respective character.

I’ve also realised that the rotation isn’t matched, it seems that the recorded motion of the camera is recorded only partially since it is not able to recreate the full orbit of rotation of the original movement…

Isn’t there a way to copy the camera from the recorded sequence into a normal level sequence?
Thanks in advance for any hint you may have!

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An idea, which may or may not work:
I would output snapshots of camera world position/orientation every 200 milliseconds or so to a file. Print out gametime, position/rotation keyframes to text, one line per snapshot.
Then I would import that file as a spline, and make my sequence out of that.