Panning shots, like alcohol, should only be used in moderation. However, when they are used they more often that produce unsatisfactory results. When taken hand-held, it is hard to keep the pan in a perfectly straight line. Even if a tripod is used, it is also difficult to maintain an consistent speed.
There is a way however to make a perfect pan, especially if you a shooting a landscape or a scene with little or no moving people or objects.
If your camera has a stills function, take a series of overlapping stills. If not take your pan shot as you would normally. In editing "grab" a number of separate frames sufficient to have them overlap.
Using Photoshop or any other photo-editing program with a panorama function, use the stills or grabbed frames to make and save one panorama still. Make sure that the overall width is less than 4000 pixels.
Import this image into your video editing program, and using the scaling and animation effects, scan across the image (the "Ken Burns" effect).
To animate the panorama some more, you could use the overhanging foliage technique outlined in my blog "Using stills in video". You will need to experiment a little with the travel of the foliage so it fits in with the moving background.
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