Camera movements and video transitions
20 motions editors ask for by name, each playing as a vertical clip. Copy a prompt to ask your coding agent for one.
Camera moves
Pan
The camera turns sideways from one spot.
Dolly
The camera moves closer; near things grow faster.
Zoom
The lens magnifies; everything grows evenly.
Orbit
The camera circles the subject.
Snap zoom
A zoom that lands in a split second.
Transitions
Cross dissolve
One shot fades out as the next fades in.
Wipe
An edge sweeps across and leaves the next shot.
Iris
The next shot opens out of a circle.
Glitch
The picture tears and jumps for a few frames.
Match cut
A cut that keeps a shape in the same spot.
Text and numbers
Type on
Letters appear one by one, as if typed.
Stagger
Items arrive one after another, a beat apart.
Count up
A number rolls up from zero to its value.
Word morph
One word melts into another in place.
Lower third
A caption bar that names who is on screen.
Timing and feel
Ease out
Starts fast, slows into its stop. Gold eases; gray doesn't.
Overshoot
Goes a little past its mark and settles back.
Squash and stretch
Flattens on impact, stretches in the air.
Parallax
Layers move at different speeds for depth.
Loop
Ends where it began, so it repeats seamlessly.
Say the name, get the move
In Cutfac, your coding agent edits the video. Paste a prompt from this page, or just name the move: “dolly in on the logo and ease out at the end.” Names like these get you the motion you meant without describing it from scratch.
Questions about camera and motion terms
A dolly moves the camera, so near things grow faster than far ones and the depth changes. A zoom only magnifies what the lens sees, so everything grows together and the picture looks flatter.
The camera dollies one way while the lens zooms the other, so the subject stays the same size while the background stretches or squeezes behind it. It's also called the Vertigo effect, after the 1958 film that made it famous.
Ease in starts slowly and speeds up; ease out starts fast and slows down. Ease out suits things arriving on screen, ease in things leaving it.
Both turn the camera from one spot. A pan turns it left or right, a tilt turns it up or down.
They describe each motion in plain words with its timing, so you can paste them into Claude Code, Codex or Cutfac, or send them to an editor. Replace anything in square brackets with your own scene.
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