Welcome to TVPaint Community forums !

Is there a way to use the new camera tools to emulate a camera shake, like someone bumping the camera and causing it to shake for a few frames (not an ongoing shake, just a brief one). I tried using the 'shaker' motion FX but I can't get it to shake the entire camera view the way I want it to. Is there a way to apply that shaker FX to the camera itself?

why not ?
if you set 2 extra-positions, say 1 offset left-side, the other rightside, the middle being the normal (steady) camera position,
(check if the extremes won't go outside the project area), then "draw" the time/pos. profile of the camera something like this : tweek the motionBlur value if you want to, and render it in a new project,
after some tests (trial and error method), it shoud make the trick, I think.

ps: for more realistic "shake" kicked camera effect, you can rotate a bit the extreme pos.,
one clockwise, the other counterclockwise.

Oh that's perfect, I didn't even know that existed! Didn't see it in the docs, but I probably just didn't look hard enough.

EDIT: I watched the camera tutorial by lemec and got the details on how to make this work.