Camera Through Wall?

[Steve Roberts]

So the camera is in room A, close to the wall, it starts to pan toward the wall, then once it’s facing the wall, it continues to pan, but it’s now in another room?

I’d either do a flash at the transition, or: place a painting (or something) on the wall of room A and room B. So when we pan, we are looking into room A to the left of the painting, then we’re looking directly at the painting, then we’re looking into room B to the right of the painting. Since the painting is in room A and room B, we can make the cut when we’re looking straight at the painting.

In AE, you could do it with two sub-comps, transitioning between, using the same camera.

Does that make sense?

[Darby Edelen]

[mikeyforVFX] “im talking about the camera parallel to the wall and panning through it.”

I think we’re confused about our terms here. Is the camera’s lens pointing parallel to the wall? If so, and in fact in all cases, you can’t ‘pan’ through a wall. Panning is turning the camera left to right just like turning your head left to right, it swivels on the same point in space. Do you want the camera to track to the right or left through the wall?

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA

[Michael Zoppo]

If I have been using my terms wrong, (which i do quite often) then yes, I would like the camera to track through the wall.

[Steve Roberts]

Ah. Sounds like a wipe would be useful. Get closer to wall A, then wipe, then move away from wall B.

[Josh J. johnson]

That sounds awesome Dave I would love to see a clip if you had one? I didn’t quite grasp the concept but that sounds really great.