FueledByImagination/ai-video-camera-movements

AI Video Camera Movements: 43 prompt recipes with example clips

43 camera moves for AI video (pans, tilts, zooms, dollies, tracking shots, orbits, cranes, drone moves, FPV, and specials like infinite zoom and time-lapse). Each record has a ready-to-paste prompt recipe, practical tips, negatives, a recommended clip length, and a 1280×720 example clip.

The recipes are plain cinematography language, so they work with any text-to-video or image-to-video model.

• Watch every move in motion: FXI Studio Prompt Recipes
• Source, schema, and full reference table: github.com/fueledximagination/fxi-camera-moves

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

moves = load_dataset("FueledByImagination/ai-video-camera-movements", split="train")
move = moves.filter(lambda m: m["id"] == "dolly-in")[0]

prompt = move["prompt_template"].replace("{scene}", "A lighthouse keeper at a rain-streaked window at night")
negative = move["negatives"].replace(" | ", ", ")

tips and negatives are lists joined with | in the CSV. The JSON file (data/camera-moves.json) keeps them as arrays.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Stable kebab-case key, e.g. dolly-in.
name	string	Display name.
category	string	Pan/Tilt, Zoom/Lens, Dolly/Track, Physical Moves, Human Camera, Drone/Crane, or Specials.
description	string	One-line description of the move.
prompt	string	The recipe, in four parts: Movement, Speed, Framing, End.
prompt_template	string	{scene}. Camera: <prompt>.
best_for	string	When to use the move.
tips	list of strings	How to make the move land.
negatives	list of strings	Competing motions to rule out in a negative prompt.
recommended_duration_min_s, recommended_duration_max_s	number	Clip length where the move reads best.
dramatic	bool	Visually dynamic move.
example_clip_url, example_clip_webm_url, poster_url	string	Example clip (MP4, WebM) and still frame.
example_clip_duration_s, example_clip_width, example_clip_height	number	Example clip metadata.
tutorial_url	string	The recipe's page with the clip playing.

How it was made

The move list covers standard cinematography vocabulary plus a few AI-native specials. The recipes were written and tested by the FXI Studio team for image-to-video generation. Every recipe follows the same Movement / Speed / Framing / End structure. Tips, negatives, and recommended durations are editorial guidance from production use, not measured benchmarks. The example clips were generated with FXI Studio from a start frame per move.

License

The data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Attribution: "Camera movement recipes by FXI Studio (fxi.studio), CC BY 4.0".

The example clips and poster frames are linked, not included. They are © FUELED BY IMAGINATION, LLC, all rights reserved, and are not covered by CC BY 4.0.

Citation

@misc{fxi_camera_moves_2026,
  title        = {AI Video Camera Movements: 43 prompt recipes with example clips},
  author       = {{FUELED BY IMAGINATION, LLC}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/fueledximagination/fxi-camera-moves}},
  note         = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0. FXI Studio, https://www.fxi.studio}
}