The topic is how to make those horizontal and vertical panning scenes look better, especially when you want them to run slower than the original speed.
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Well, it's so simple you might be doing it already. And if you're not, you'll wonder why you never thought of it before.Fungie½ wrote:Wow, definately. I use Premiere 6 so any help you could give me would be great.TaranT wrote:Those long pans might be made smoother by using stills-plus-motion settings. PM me if you're interested in knowing how (it's easy).
What you need is some kind of photo editing software that "stitches" two pictures together. PhotoImpact (what I use), Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop are the better known packages. There are others, including some freeware.
The concept originated several years ago when people wanted to merge two or more photos into a single wide panoramic picture. You can do the same with a long pan (vertical or horizontal) in anime footage by extracting two stills from the clip...then stitching them together to make one wide picture.
That new pic goes on the timeline and you apply motion settings to pan the viewpoint across the picture. Since it's a still, the speed of movement is entirely under your control. The motion will look smooth within the constraints of whatever compression method you're using.
I don't use Premiere so I can't help with the motion setting, but you probably know how to do that already. I will advise taking extra time to make sure the merge is as perfect as you can make it. In a slow pan any defect will be more than obvious, especially on a 20 foot screen. However, the technique is easy enough that you can make a quick pic, see what it looks like on the timeline, then go back and clean it up.
Not every panning scene can be worked this way. Some scenes have sliding layers, others have lighting changes, many have some objects moving in them that can't be ignored.
For examples, check out the first, second, and sixth scenes in my Porco Rosso vid.
