Text2Movie

The film language each AI video model's docs let you write

Directing note: one word, many models

Close-up each appear in the docs of ten models, more than any other camera words on the site. Terms like the whip pan appear in only two. As of 2026-09-25.

One word, many modelsThe note in 4 steps: Common words, Rare words, Definitions and Tests.Common wordsThe decisionat this point.thenRare wordsWhat the docsoffer here.thenDefinitionsThe decisionat this point.thenTestsWhere modelsdiffer.
Fig. 1 Left to right, in the order the note takes.

A rare word is not a banned word; it may simply not be documented.

Where a word is defined, the definition is the one to write against.

1From the docs

Select from the available camera Motion options to guide the camera's movement within the generated video

Adobe, Firefly help: generate videos using text prompts

Pan (left/right) : the camera rotates horizontally left or right from a fixed position.

Google Cloud, Veo video prompt guide

Make the water crash down and slowly pan out the camera

xAI, Grok Imagine documentation

2A shot list from a script

Where “One word, many models” has to be written by hand, SceneMixer's pipeline writes the shots; its guides explain:

SceneMixer writes dialogue into the script analysis, assigns each line to a shot with a speaker and a short delivery note, and the video model performs it — picture and audio generated together, so the mouth forms that sentence in the language you chose.

SceneMixer, AI Dialogue Generator (read 2026-10-13)

A line lives inside the shot where it is spoken, in four parts: the speaker chip, the delivery note in round brackets, the words after the colon, and the voice chip after the words.

SceneMixer, Dialogue in the Storyboard: How to Write a Line, and What Save Tidies Up (read 2026-10-13)

3Other notes

Examples are quoted from the models' docs; no model was run.