How do I make a camera follow a path?

Hi, I am just starting to learn the basics of C3D animation. How can I attach a camera to a modified ellipse or spline so that the camera moves along this path?

*One more thing, is there a graph-editor of some kind where I can "slow down" my animation by changing the shape of the graph curve? I don't know much about animation at all, but I've seen something like this in Flash years ago. Of course that's 2d so maybe it's not something people use in 3d.

Thank you in advance for your help.
 
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Thanks Frank, I seem to be having a spot of trouble with the Bend Modifier. Here's an example of what I did (I made a short screen recording but seems the forum doesn't accept .mov files). You can see that after I added the Bend, only the purple wireframe box gets rotated. Not sure what I'm doing wrong... please help.
 

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Make sure your box stays 1:1:1 in Scale by using Width/Height/Length to adjust proportions.
Then you need Sections along the Z-axis to bend the box and rotate the Bend-modifier to 90° at the Z-axis:
BentBox.gif


Cheers
Frank
 

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Ok thank you –– but I think I may have a setting still off. The scale says 1, 1, 1 and I adjusted its size using the X Y Z fields instead. Added some sections like the example above...
 

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Thanks, I tried to adjust the size of the Cage but it didn't seem to affect the bend. I did adjust the angle from 0 to 90º similar to your file, and it does bend. Maybe that is a factor? Sorry for the lack of understand.. I am very new to subD modeling.
 
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