Camera follow geometry - parenting doesn't seem to work the way I want

Hey there. Thanks in advance for any advice here - I’m very new!

I’ve animated text using an instanced library of photos. It’s based on a tutorial by Matt Ross.

Because one of the animated parameters changes the scale of the text, I want the camera to continually frame the geo (which means it would zoom in and out as the scale of the text changes).

I tried to parent the camera to the geo but it doesn’t animate the camera the way I would have hoped. Actually, nothing seems to happen.

The camera just holds a static position which means the expanding text gets cropped out at some point.

I would like the camera to look exactly like how the geo looks - since the geo dynamically frames the text perfectly.

I hope that makes sense. Please let me know how I can do this!

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Hi @weseeclearly,

this is not a trivial task but are you using the Geo Text COMP or how are you creating the text?

cheers
Markus