Or it could be because of frame rate of those pans. Increase frame rate and the motion will appear fluid. But it will also be shorter. 250 cameras sounds like a

Or it could be because of frame rate of those pans. Increase frame rate and the motion will appear fluid. But it will also be shorter. 250 cameras sounds like a lot but there were maybe just 25 horizontally, so that's 1 second of fluid animation, or 2 seconds of choppy animation. To get a better Matrix-like effect, they would rearrange them so all 250 are used.