How do they film scenes where the camera moves around a room, but all of the occupants are seemingly “frozen”?

Question

**The Other Guys** found its way onto Netflix again recently and I rewatched it for the nth time. When Allen goes “drinking with Terry Hoitz”, [this scene catalogues their experience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l80mHMmJzr0). I’ve seen this technique before but I can’t figure out how its accomplished. ELI5?

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Answer 1

Just one camera, actors could be projected as single frames on bunch of planes, everything else is cg. Nothing else. Its actually not that hard. In case of camera rotation actors could be either cg characters, or just really still standing people. No bullet time or anything like that.