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Compositing - Putting it all Together
 

This part used to require a special camera mounted on a table with lights that would fill an entire room. The background  and the transparent cels were attached to peg bars and shot 1 frame at a time. Between each shot someone had to change the cels on the table and if the scene called for a pan or a zoom then someone had to remember to crank the knobs just the right amount for every frame.

Disney's original multiplane camera was several stories tall and required several operators and so many lights they could only use it at night or they'd brown out all of Burbank. Then after working on the camera all night they'd have to wait for the film to be developed, go into a dark room and load it into a projector to see how it turned out.

Now you can set it up on a laptop and let FlipBook do it for you. To pan the background you just set key frames at the beginning and end of the pan and drag the background into place to compose the key frames. FlipBook handles the rest. It changes the drawings, cranks the knobs and clicks the camera for you as it creates a movie file you can watch on any media player, post on the internet or record onto DVD and play on TV.