Directing note: prompt words or presets

Most models take camera moves as words in the prompt; a few offer a fixed list of commands or presets. Words are open-ended and hard to check; a preset does one thing the maker has tuned. As of 2026-09-25.

When a move keeps coming out wrong from words, a model with a named command for it is the next thing to try.

Where a model publishes its list, the list is also a map of what it was taught.

1From the docs

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

AI-crafted cinematic moves like crash zooms and crane shots, fully controllable.

Higgsfield, camera controls

• Camera motion
  Camera moves are prompt words, each defined with an example: static, pan, tilt, dolly and moreGoogle Cloud, Veo video prompt guide / recorded 2026-09-25
• Example request
  Camera moves are written in the prompt, as in its example of panning outxAI, Grok Imagine documentation / recorded 2026-09-25
• Camera controls
  More than fifty named motion presets, from crash zooms to crane shots and bullet timeHiggsfield, camera controls / recorded 2026-09-25
• Demo prompts
  Camera movement is written into the prompt; the demo prompts circle, tilt and zoom the cameraTencent Hunyuan, HunyuanVideo-1.5 repository / recorded 2026-09-25
• Multi-shot examples
  Camera moves are written into each shot of the prompt, as in its tracking-shot examplesKling AI, VIDEO 3.0 model user guide / recorded 2026-09-25
• Motion Controls
  Motion Control presets for Motion 2.0, from crane and dolly moves to orbits and bullet timeLeonardo.Ai Help Center, generating video / recorded 2026-09-25
• Key elements
  Camera movement is a step of the prompt: how and when the camera moves, relative to the subjectLTX, prompting guide / recorded 2026-09-25
• Camera motion presets
  Camera motion presets under the prompt field: static, handheld, dolly, crane, dolly zoom and whip outLTX Studio blog, camera motion in the Gen Space / recorded 2026-09-25

2A shot list from a script

Where “Prompt words or presets” 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)

The samples page for 15 languages lists one finished series per language, each with the cast speaking that language natively and every segment's storyboard shown next to its video.

SceneMixer, AI Short Drama in 15 Languages (2026): Interface, Scripts and the Dialogue Your Cast Actually Speaks — “Can I watch a sample in my language before I start?” (read 2026-10-13)

3Other notes

• Motion scores in open models
• Planning cuts inside one clip

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