Virtual Camera

A virtual camera is a tool introduced in animation software to make the process of executing pans, zooms, or tilts (among other techniques) easily. It's possible to execute those techniques manually, but that interferes with the rest of the animation data, and makes it inconvenient to apply further changes later.

In Adobe Animate / Flash
In current versions of Animate, a built-in virtual camera tool is included (since Adobe Animate CC 2017 ). Users of previous versions have to make use of their own virtual camera setup, typically based on wrapping their animations inside movie clips/graphic symbols, or (more commonly) some automated (usually via ActionScript) system. A popular example of the latter (often what is called a "V-Cam") appears to be Sham Bhangal's, which was first featured in his article ActionScript for Non-Coders.