Creative Final Cut Pro
How to use a panning tripod to add camera moves to digital doppelgänger footage
Locking the camera off on a tripod and filming a person standing on opposite sides of the screen is a fairly easy job. By using a mask you can combine the two clips together to create the illusion of twins or clones. By adding a panning tripod, such as the JOBY Spin, to the mix you can make the camera perform an identical pan multiple times. This enables you to add a panning camera move to your scene of digital duplicates. We’ve supplied three panning clips for you to stitch together in Final Cut Pro to create the illusion of identical triplets working together in the same scene.
Masks on the move
Combine three panning clips
Step-by-step Send in the clones
The JOBY Spin is a compact rotating tripod head. We mounted an iPhone 13 Pro Max to the Spin then used the JOBY Motion app to set the start and end points of the pan.
In JOBY Motion you can set a speed for the camera pan, and it can get it to repeat the move multiple times so you can film your actor in different parts of the screen.
We used the JOBY Spin to capture three panning cl
