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When to start a pan

When to start a pan

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When to start a pan

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- [Narrator] Let's take a look at the right way and the wrong way to start a pan animation. Now, this scene is panning all the time, so what I'm going to show you now is kind of irrelevant to this example. But what if we wanted to start with a static position and then begin the panning of the scene? There is a right way and wrong way, and I'll show you both. So let's just look at the man, and imaging we have a scene where we're going to start him on the left and then track him across the right. So we can do something like this. Now, the problem with this, and maybe you can see it or maybe not, the pan is happening before he reaches the halfway point of the screen. In other words, he's still on the left side of the screen before the camera starts to pan, and the problem with that is the pan anticipates the action, that's not good. Here is another version where, this time we wait a little bit until he's on the halfway point…

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