Luma Dream Machine: camera moves
Luma Dream Machine, how a camera move is asked for: “Commands or presets”. Camera moves are words in the prompt, taken from a list the API returns. As of 2026-09-25.
Camera is controlled by language in Dream Machine.
Luma AI, Dream Machine API video generation
- Camera motionsCamera moves are words in the prompt, taken from a list the API returns
1Beside the other models
6 other models read the same way: Adobe Firefly, Higgsfield, Leonardo Motion 2.0, LTX Studio, MiniMax Hailuo and others.
The reading goes no further than the quoted line.
2About the field
Words are flexible and hard to verify; commands are narrow and exact. A command list also tells a writer which moves the maker has trained for, which a free-text prompt never does.
| Model | Reading |
|---|---|
| Adobe Firefly | Commands or presets |
| Google Veo | Words in the prompt |
| Grok Imagine | Words in the prompt |
| Higgsfield | Commands or presets |
| HunyuanVideo 1.5 | Words in the prompt |
| Kling AI | Words in the prompt |
| Leonardo Motion 2.0 | Commands or presets |
| LTX | Words in the prompt |
| LTX Studio | Commands or presets |
| Luma Dream Machine | Commands or presets |
| Midjourney | None in the docs |
| MiniMax Hailuo | Commands or presets |
| Moonvalley Marey | Drawn or set from an image |
| Open-Sora 2.0 | None in the docs |
| Pika | Words in the prompt |
| PixVerse | Commands or presets |
| Runway | Words in the prompt |
| SceneMixer | Words in the prompt |
| Seedance | From a reference |
| SkyReels | Words in the prompt |
| Sora | Words in the prompt |
| Step-Video-TI2V | Words in the prompt |
| Vidu | None in the docs |
| Wan | Words in the prompt |
Inclusion rule. Every model on the register, whether or not it has a page of its own on this field. Order. Alphabetical by model name.