Video jitter when panning with Canon 7D

[Nicholas]

Hi anytime i pan with my canon 7D the video jitter and is not smooth. I shoot at 24fps at 1/50 shutter speed. Any advice? thanks in advance...

[Ben Prater]

What lens? Sample footage?

[Bioskop.Inc]

Could be the tripod head? Does it have any drag adjustors, if so tighten them for a smoother pan. 

If you've not got drag adjustors, the best advice for a smooth pan is use a few rubber bands & pull in an even manner (& don't pan too quickly).

[QuickHitRecord]

Make sure that the image stabilization is turned OFF on your lens.

 

But I suspect more that it's a side effect of shooting at 24 frames per second. If an object takes less than about seven seconds to pass from one side of the screen to the other, then you are likely to experience motion judder when viewing on a 60hz monitor. It is one of the limitations of that frame rate.

 

If you really need smooth motion, you may find that 30 and 60 frames (especially 60 frames) per second are better for your purposes.

[HurtinMinorKey]

^this

 

See the part about panning a few paragraphs down and check to see if you are panning too fast.

 

http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/908/cpsid_90843.html

 

note the "seven second rule" mentioned by QuickHitRecord. 

[nigelbb]

You are almost certainly panning too fast. It's really surprising just how slow you need to do it. If you can't pan slowly enough it's better to do a whip pan as the brain accepts that better than the jitters of a fast pan.