Crossword clues for panning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
panning \pan"ning\, n. The act or process in which heavier ores are concentrated by agitating a sample of crushed ore under water in a shallow pan, thus washing away the lighter particles from the sample; as, panning for gold. See pan[1], v. t. and pan[1], v. i.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of one who pans, as for gold. 2 Material that has been panned. 3 (context audio English) The act by which a sound is panned. 4 (cx informal English) Thorough criticism. vb. (present participle of pan English)
WordNet
n. cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn: cooking pan]
(Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: the goat god]
shallow container made of metal
chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids [syn: genus Pan]
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Wikipedia
In cinematography, panning refers to rotating or pivoting a motion picture or video camera horizontally from a fixed position. This motion is similar to the motion a person makes when she turns her head on her neck from left to right. In the resulting image, the view seems to "pass by" the spectator as new material appears on one side of the screen and exits from the other, although perspective lines reveal that the entire image is seen from a fixed point of view.
The term panning is short for panorama, suggesting an expansive view that exceeds the gaze, forcing the viewer to turning her head to take everything in. Panning, in other words, is a device for gradually revealing and incorporating off-screen space into the image.
Panning should never be confused with "tracking" or "traveling," in which the camera is not just pivoted but is physically displaced left or right, generally by being rolled parallel to its subject.
In video technology, panning refers to the horizontal scrolling of an image wider than the display.
For 3D modeling in computer graphics, panning means moving parallel to the current view plane. In other words, the camera moves perpendicular to the direction it is pointed.
The technique also has limited applications in still photography.
In other disciplines, this motion is called yaw.
Panning is the distribution of a sound signal (either monaural or stereophonic pairs) into a new stereo or multi- channel sound field determined by a pan control setting. A typical physical recording console has a pan control for each incoming source channel. A pan control or pan pot (short for " potentiometer") is an analog knob with a position indicator which can range continuously from the 8 o'clock when fully left to the 4 o'clock position fully right. Audio mixing software replaces pan pots with on-screen virtual knobs or sliders which function identically to the physical counterparts.
A pan pot has an internal architecture which determines how much of a source signal is sent to the left and right buses. "Pan pots split audio signals into left and right channels, each equipped with its own discrete gain ( volume) control." This signal distribution is often called a taper or law.
When centered (at 12 o'clock), the law can be designed to send -3, -4.5 or -6 decibels (dB) equally to each bus. "Signal passes through both the channels at an equal volume while the pan pot points directly north." If the two output buses are later recombined into a monaural signal, then a pan law of -6 dB is desirable. If the two output buses are to remain stereo then a law of -3 dB is desirable. A law of -4.5 dB at center is a compromise between the two. A pan control fully rotated to one side results in the source being sent at full strength (+0 dB) to one bus (either the left or right channel) and zero strength (- dB) to the other. Regardless of the pan setting, the overall sound power level remains (or appears to remain) constant. Because of the phantom center phenomenon, sound panned to the center position is perceived as coming from between the left and right speakers, but not in the center unless listened to with headphones, because of head-related transfer function HRTF.
Panning in audio borrows its name from panning action in moving image technology. An audio pan pot can be used in a mix to create the impression that a source is moving from one side of the soundstage to the other, although ideally there would be timing [including phase and Doppler effects], filtering and reverberation differences present for a more complete picture of apparent movement within a defined space. Simple analog pan controls only change relative level; they don't add reverb to replace direct signal, phase changes, modify the spectrum, or change delay timing. "Tracks thus seem to move in the direction that [one] point[s] the pan pots on a mixer, even though [one] actually attenuate[s] those tracks on the opposite side of the horizontal plane."
Panning can also be used in an audio mixer to reduce or reverse the stereo width of a stereo signal. For instance, the left and right channels of a stereo source can be panned 'straight up', that is sent equally to both the left output and the right output of the mixer, creating a dual mono signal.
An early panning process was used in the development of Fantasound, an early pioneering stereophonic sound reproduction system for Fantasia (1940).
Usage examples of "panning".
She and James had done well in California, not from panning gold but from selling beef to the prospectors in the blossoming gold rush towns.
As he looked through the telephoto lens of the viewfinder, he moved the camera from the portico, sweeping across the facade of the cathedral, then panning across the crowd of tourists and pilgrims, as if capturing the entire scene on video, an amateur cinematographer.
Over to the side, Daniel, who, like me, was oblivious to anything that could not be seen through the camera lens, kept right on filming, panning across the back of the ahu, not noticing the absolute chaos just to his left.
Alan was barely on his feet when he saw Adrienne in the middle of the dirt track, a minicam in place of a head, slowly panning even as the guns roared.
College of Cardinals, and the BBC camerawoman instinctively followed, panning the crowd.
The camerlegno motioned out over the College of Cardinals, and the BBC camerawoman instinctively followed, panning the crowd.
It was partly a matter of plain old taste: ad-critics argued that the NoCoat spots were equivalent to like Preparation H filming a procto-exam, or a Depend Adult Undergarment camera panning for floor-puddles at a church social.
More shots, panning, terrified faces, more blood, black and smeared by the imperfections of the broadcast medium.
Emma watched the Cruithne landscape slide past the firefly's panning camera lens.
He went on to tell that a prospector named George Washington Carmack, along with two Indians named Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, found the gold nugget that started it all while panning for gold at the junction of the Yukon and Klondike rivers on August 17, 1896.
A green crab was ensconced on the moist sand by his feet, using one claw to shove food into its mouthparts like a miner panning for gold.
He had found one of the richest placers in Colorado history, and he kept that, fact to himself, panning the gravel and secreting the nuggets, because in California he had learned that when a man found a placer, the trick was to locate the vein which threw off the nuggets, for the nuggets were valuable today, but the vein existed forever.
Two, you're sitting in the heart of Colorado mining country, and since I have a raving fetish for prospecting, I took the liberty of stopping over in hopes of getting in a little gold panning before continuing on to my lecture.
It was all right when you amused yourself by praising some horrible abortion of Grandpaw Holcombe's or panning the pants off your own father and that pretty butcher's-calendar boy that he's got himself for a partner.
We tinners grew up panning for tin before the big mines took over everything.