• Adobe After Effects

  Swish Pan (is that what it’s called?)

  Posted by Fermin Romero on October 17, 2007 at 5:56 pm

  I have seen the swish pan used in TV shows before but now I am seeing it on the web too: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/rooms/dining/10712/

  Anyone know how this is done? I am doing experiments with motion blur but it’s not quite right.

  Can anyone give some tips on how to make it look right?

  Thanks

  Fermin

  Erik Pontius replied 18 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  October 17, 2007 at 8:37 pm

  Directional Blur?
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  Daniel Linge

  October 18, 2007 at 5:09 am

  hey i was wondering this exact thing myself

  o and also is there a way in AE to do all this with a still shot( like the camera wasnt moved at all during shooting)?
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  Kyle Troxell

  October 18, 2007 at 12:33 pm

  Are you kidding?

  you don’t need anything. You can do this in two seconds.
  Film the first scene: a man at a table and then you want to quick pan over to a woman at a table in another place

  Film the man with your camera movements and then when you want the quick pan to take place, turn your camera in that direction as fast as you can and do the same for the woman. But make sure you do the same direction.

  Check out the ten minute flick school on Once Upon A Time In Mexico DVD

  you will get what i mean then
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  Erik Pontius

  October 18, 2007 at 2:29 pm

  It’s definitely possible to do it all in camera, however, from scrutinizing the animation a little, it looks to me like this is a combination of things.
  It looks to me like the actual production camera is on dolly track, and is being crabbed along. It starts at the far left of the frame pointed at a wall, window, etc… then the camera pans to the subject as the dolly is pushed along and the camera continues to pan keeping the subject center frame, then pans to the opposite wall. The “swish” part of the pan is too smooth and exact to really pull this off full speed and was most likely a slower pan…the kind of force required to quickly pan a heavy camera and start/stop it smoothly at that precise location overcoming the momentum would be very challenging. The footage is probably then manipulated in AE or something similar to ramp up the pan and add motion blur and blend the next scene which is shot in an identical manner.
  Just my $.02

  Erik

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