# Camera Moves — prompt skill for camera & shots

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22 camera moves with direction, speed and an end frame — dolly in to bullet time — in six models' syntax.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://skills.varg.ai/prompts.md) · [Camera & shots](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/camera.md)
- **Slug:** `craft-camera-moves`
- **Status:** beta
- **Publisher:** varg (varg, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/vargHQ/skills
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Any MCP client, varg Studio

## What it does

Twenty-two original camera-move cards. Every clause names one move, its direction and speed, what it moves relative to, and the frame it settles on — the pattern that stops the drifting, never-settling camera. Aliases map other tools' vocabulary onto each card (Higgsfield's 'Super Dolly In' and 'Lazy Susan', Hailuo's `[Truck left]`, Luma's 'Orbit Right', Seedance's 环绕 and 希区柯克变焦), and adapters cover Veo, Kling, Seedance, Hailuo, Luma and Runway. Moves Hailuo has no single command for are composed from up to three simultaneous commands — an orbit becomes `[Truck left,Pan right]`, a crane becomes `[Pedestal up,Tilt down]`.

## Use when

- Choosing or naming a camera move for a shot
- Translating a preset name from another app into a move any model understands
- A generated clip drifts or never settles — rewrite the move with an explicit end frame

## Not for

- Lens and focus effects (craft-lens-optics)
- Several moves stacked in one clip — split them into shots

## Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills

**Models it drives:** veo_3_1, veo_3_1_fast, veo_3_1_lite, omni_flash_1_1, kling_v3, kling_v3_standard, seedance_2_5, seedance_2, minimax_h3_max

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/craft-camera-moves.mp4 — A live-action arc: the camera orbits Thom as he walks onto a canal bridge and stops, swinging from a 3/4-front view through profile to 3/4-back while the background wheels from the church to the canal. Tears of Steel (2012) 04:30.5-04:38.5, 720p release from the Blender mirror (download.blender.org/demo/movies/ToS), center-cropped by varg from 2.40:1 to 16:10, no audio. (credit: Tears of Steel (CC BY 3.0) — (CC) Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org, https://mango.blender.org/)

## Used for

- [Product video from a photo](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/product-video.md): A product shot turned into a short promo: orbit, push-in, exploded view or bullet time, with music.
- [Animate a photo](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/animate-photo.md): A still photo brought to life: a subtle smile, blink, camera move or full scene motion.

## More camera & shots skills

- [fal Cinematography](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-cinematography.md): Direct cinematic stills and video: shot language, camera moves, lenses, lighting, grade and film texture.
- [Storyboard Creation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-storyboard-creation.md): Storyboard a video before generating: shot types, angles, moves, the 180-degree rule, annotated panels.
- [Video Shotcraft](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/video-shotcraft.md): 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.
- [Shot Sizes & Angles](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-shot-sizes-angles.md): 17 framing cards — extreme wide to insert, eye level to worm's-eye — with model-ready clauses.
- [Lens & Optics](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-lens-optics.md): 10 lens and focus cards — compression, anamorphic, rack focus, split diopter — written as visible effects.
- [Composition & Framing](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-composition-framing.md): 9 composition cards — thirds, symmetry, leading lines, negative space, 2.39:1 — for stills and video.