Camera moves: pans, dollies and tracking
A camera move is a change of camera position or direction during a shot: a pan turns, a dolly travels, a tracking shot follows. From 8 source pages, read 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-25; no maker pays to be listed.
On a still storyboard a move is written or labelled; on tools that turn the board into video it becomes an instruction for the generation.
Named move presets and 3D camera tools are two ways the catalogued tools put moves on the board.
1The term in vendor wording
| Board tool | What the vendor page says | Field |
|---|---|---|
| AI Drama Generator | Camera angles are edited per shot in the storyboard, with camera direction set for the drama | Camera |
| DirectStudio AI | Cinematic camera controls such as close-ups, dynamic tracking and sweeping aerials | Camera |
| Higgsfield | Camera moves are picked from presets such as dolly, crane, push and orbit, and lens, aperture, lighting and colour are set for each scene | Camera |
| ImagineArt | Six production controls per shot: camera body, lens, motion, timing, depth of field and reference elements | Camera |
| LTX Studio | Camera Motion Presets apply professional camera movements to shots | Camera |
| OiiOii | Video is generated with a first-frame and a last-frame image as references | To video |
| ScreenWeaver | Every shot is labelled with its framing and move, such as medium with a dolly-in | Camera |
| Storyboarder.ai | A 3D camera tool orbits, pans and reframes a single storyboard image without regenerating it | Camera |
Inclusion rule. Board tools whose copied lines use the term or its usual equivalent; one line each. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.
Edit dialogue, emotional beats, camera angles, pacing, and visual flow
AI Drama Generator, front page
Cinematic camera control Cinematic Close-Ups
DirectStudio AI, home page
- Storyboard and scene editingCamera angles are edited per shot in the storyboard, with camera direction set for the drama
- Cinematic camera controlCinematic camera controls such as close-ups, dynamic tracking and sweeping aerials
- Direct every sceneCamera moves are picked from presets such as dolly, crane, push and orbit, and lens, aperture, lighting and colour are set for each scene
- Production controlsSix production controls per shot: camera body, lens, motion, timing, depth of field and reference elements
- Camera Motion PresetsCamera Motion Presets apply professional camera movements to shots
- First/last frame and universal referenceVideo is generated with a first-frame and a last-frame image as references
- Product viewEvery shot is labelled with its framing and move, such as medium with a dolly-in
- Key feature 03A 3D camera tool orbits, pans and reframes a single storyboard image without regenerating it3D camera
2From board to moving shots
Between the script and the video in “Camera move”, SceneMixer hands back the following, in its own words:
SceneMixer generates each character once as a full-body reference sheet — 9:16, plain background, directional key light, identity features written before any technical instruction — and then attaches crops of that sheet to every shot the character appears in.
SceneMixer, AI Character Sheet Generator (read 2026-10-13)
The new name is written everywhere the old one stood: storyboard lines, episode titles and summaries, the scene lists and already-parsed dialogue.
SceneMixer, Reusing a Character, Scene or Voice Across Projects — “What happens to the old name in the storyboard?” (read 2026-10-13)