sfdex opened this issue on Feb 01, 2008 · 7 posts
sfdex posted Fri, 01 February 2008 at 11:05 PM
BWTR --
Those are the tracking controls -- they move the camera through 3d space. The pan control is obtained by clicking on the dolly control (the round ball with the four arrows), which then changes to be a pan control and clicking it again makes it a "bank" control. The difference between panning and tracking is that a pan is a camera move that keeps the camera located in one place but turns it so it shows a different view, whereas a tracking shot moves the camera through space to get a different perspective.
Each technique has a place in motion picture production, but they're not interchangeable.
Patrick --
Thanks for the keyboard right-mouse-button tip; I hadn't seen that before.
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