A question for Jafa, Barfly, Joe90 and the rest about taking footage

[_RAAF_Stupot]

I am a hack IL-2 moviemaker that gets most of my best ideas off other people, and I have to credit the people in the subject line (plus many others) for that. I think I am slowly learning the main techniques, but there is one I haven't figured out....

That is regarding obtaining footage off the ntrk recordings......

How do you all get such nice & smooth pans & zooms (especially the zooms)?

Obviously you can simulate a zoom in the video editor by cropping & key-framing, but I have no idea how to get a nice smooth zoom from the native ntrk using Fraps. My mouse hand is too jerky! Smooth pans are pretty easy using TrackIR, but that doesn't solve the zoom problem. (I am not using any mods, so 6DoF TrackIR is out).

Do you record the ntrk at 2x speed & twice the eventual fps, so that any hand jerks will be 'dampened out' when it is eventually rendered at 1x speed?