how to swish pan?

mcvideo

mcvideo

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example of what im trying to create myself. swish pan! video is from Stillmotion found here

Time stamps 0:16 through 0:19. You see a swish pan. There are other areas in the video as well. Any one care to share how this is achieved. Im thinking you can do this in AE without any issues. I'd love to hear from you who know this effect and use it in your work, of this kind.

I know its a couple of frame grabs animated up/down or right/left with motion blur. my question is how do you put it all together so it comes out smooth..

thanks in advance! If anyone knows of a tutorial out there i'd like to read it/view it. And i am aware you can purchase a similar effect here but its not the same.. I'm looking to create the one stillmotion used.
 
For a vertical one like that, I'd build a single tall composition approximately the height of two pieces of footage, whatever size that may be for what you're working with. It should probably be slightly smaller than the true heights because you'll need to feather the edges of the footage and overlap them. Then stack the pieces of footage up and either mask and feather where they overlap, or do a more articulate roto for a better look. So, say you want to transition from a shot of a person to a shot of a city. I'd overlap the two slightly, with the "edge" of the city overlapping the very bottom of the person, and then roto the building tops or whatever, feather them out a bunch, and then do one of two things. Either animate a 3D camera over them, or precomp the doubly tall composition into a comp the size of just a single piece of footage, then keyframe the motion, so your double comp scrolls up quickly with motion blur, revealing the city shot at the end. It looks like in the sample you showed, they combined a technique like this with actual footage that moves downward anyway, which only helps to sell the effect better, much like cutting on action would. There are some details to finesse, like keeping your second shot from showing as your first shot plays, and vice versa when your swish pan "lands" on shot 2. You would just opacitate it out or whatever you choose, as your move occurs, to clear your frame. I hope that makes sense. You'll probably get the idea better once you give it a shot, because you'll see some of the issues I'm talking about.
 
i wish i can see what your saying. Im more of a visual guy than do this, that.. I'll give it a shot though when i get free time. If anyone has seen a tutorial on this id love to see it.

thanks for replying grahamdunn
 
bump.. any other ideas. Any tutorials out there or self created tutorials?

thanks much guys
 
Video copilot has a plug in called Twitch that does this. It's a little more graphical, but I'm sure it can be adjusted.
http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/flash/products/twitch/twitchdemovideo/
Skip to 6:00 and watch what he does with the super models.
You can probably take what you see and mimic it without the plug-in.

I think what grahamdunn mention is also an easy way to create this. Just create a comp the size of two pieces of footage vertically (top to bottom) and just move your footage from top to bottom and use some blurring and other
effects... what'ever grahamdunn said :D
good luck

If I have time, i'LL TRY TO create a project for you so you can see what it looks like.
 
First time I have ever seen a swish pan, and I am going to try to do the same thing that they acheived here...that was a very very good video! Very nice steadicam work also!
 
swish pan is easy peasy. just slide one shot out while sliding the next shot in. make sure the edges of the two lock together. enable motion blur on both layers and the comp. adjust shutter angle in camera options to control how much motion blur you want. done properly it looks like you whip panned from one scene to the next.
 
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