Camera control on this site is the coarse switch: lock the camera off, or name a move in the prompt — dolly in, orbit left, handheld. A camera path is the next degree of authoring: where the camera is at the start, where it is at the end, and the curve in between. Some models expose that as start and end camera poses, a spline, or a list of waypoints. The prompt word 'orbit' is a vibe. A path is a route.
First-last-frame is not a camera path. It interpolates two pictures of the world; the camera is implied by how those pictures differ. Motion-control drives a subject with a clip; the camera in the output follows the driving take only insofar as the model copies it. Asking for a path and a competing subject action at once is how anatomy breaks at the fastest part of the move. One route, one action.
Lock-off is still the right default for talking heads, labels, and anything with type in the frame. A path earns its keep on product orbits, establishing shots, and the one push-in that is the hook. If the model has no path control, you do not get one by writing more camera synonyms. You pick a model that exposes the trajectory, or you generate the stills and interpolate them on purpose.
In practice
- Name one path. A push that is also an orbit that is also handheld is three briefs.
- Keep the subject simpler when the camera is travelling; the coherence budget is shared.
- If the row has no camera-path control, a prompt adverb will not invent one.
The mistake to avoid
Describing a camera path in image-to-video while also re-describing the input frame. The model tries to travel and to stay, and the composition drifts off the still you paid for.
Related terms
Camera control
Camera control is the set of inputs that decide how the virtual camera behaves during a generated clip — whether it pushes in, orbits, pans, or stays locked off.
Motion level
Motion level is a coarse dial for how much movement a generated clip contains, usually offered as low, medium or high rather than a precise number.
First-last frame
First-last frame generation takes two stills, where the clip starts and where it ends, and generates the motion that gets from one to the other.
Motion control
AI motion control copies the movement and expressions from a reference video onto a character image, as in Kling Motion Control. The performer changes.
Seed
Seed meaning: the number that sets the random starting noise so the same seed and settings can reproduce the same output.
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