[pfranz]

> Panning shots in movies now look absolutely terrible and some shots have become basically unwatchable, looking jerky and unrefined. I feel like I'm missing a lot of information such as reading signs.

Like you were implying, they were shot, edited, and delivered with those limitations in mind. Of course, they were done for the cinema and home theater is a close approximation.

I remember hearing cinematographers talk about working with IMAX and panning was something they specifically brought up. If you shot something in a way you would for 35mm (normal movies), things may jump 10+ feet between each frame. So you have to go much slower or choose not to use a pan. The same attention would be done if they used other tools like shooting digital or on video or were shooting for television.