Camera & shots: agent skills for camera angle and shot prompts
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Camera angles, shot sizes, lenses and camera moves, with the prompt words for Seedance, Kling and Veo. 22 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.
Skills (22)
Prompts (11)
- fal Cinematography — fal: Direct cinematic stills and video: shot language, camera moves, lenses, lighting, grade and film texture.
- Replicate Prompt Videos — Replicate: Prompt video models like a director: shots, camera motion, four audio layers, dialogue, time-coded beats.
- Video Prompting Guide — inference.sh: Write prompts that video models follow: shot types, camera moves and per-model tips from Veo to Sora.
- FLUX 3 Cinematic Inserts — Black Forest Labs: Write FLUX 3 prompts for standalone cinematic shots: shot craft, camera, continuity and review.
- Video Shotcraft — Vincent Wei: 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.
- Higgsfield Prompt Skill (O-Side Media) — O-Side Media: Independent 36-skill prompt pack for Higgsfield: model picks, camera presets, Soul ID, Cinema Studio, Seedance 2.5.
- Seedance 2.0 Prompt Guide — Dex Hünter: Prompt guide for Seedance 2.0 multimodal video: the @ reference system, camera language and ready templates.
- Camera Moves — varg, beta: 47 camera moves with direction, speed and an end frame — dolly in to car mount — in six models' syntax.
- Shot Sizes & Angles — varg, beta: 29 framing cards — extreme wide to insert, cowboy to master shot, eye level to worm's-eye — with model-ready clauses.
- Lens & Optics — varg, beta: 20 lens and focus cards — anamorphic, rack focus, lens flare, chromatic aberration — written as visible effects.
- Composition & Framing — varg, beta: 34 composition cards — thirds, symmetry, leading lines, forced perspective, 2.39:1 to IMAX — for stills and video.
Effects (7)
- In-Camera Whip Pan Cut — HeyGen: End shot A and start shot B with real fast pans in the same direction, and cut inside the motion blur.
- Pull In (Zoom In) — HeyGen: The camera rushes into shot A and lands, still moving forward, in shot B. The signature short-form transition.
- Pull Out (Zoom Out) — HeyGen: The camera jerks backwards out of shot A and keeps pulling back as shot B settles in.
- Whip Swipe — HeyGen: A fast synthetic pan with heavy motion blur pushes A off and B in. Fakes a whip pan between any two shots.
- Spin — bread · GL Transitions: The frame rotates fast around its centre (with blur) and comes out of the spin on the next shot.
- Camera Shake — HeyGen: A short violent shake (often with a zoom) hits on the cut, like an impact or a bass hit.
- Zoom to the Action — HeyGen: The full app establishes, then the camera pushes 1.5–2× into the part being used and eases back out.
Guides (1)
- Storyboard Creation — inference.sh: Storyboard a video before generating: shot types, angles, moves, the 180-degree rule, annotated panels.
Workflows (1)
- Previz to Seedance — varg, beta: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
Models & tools (2)
- Image to Video — inference.sh: Animate stills into video: pick the right model, then prompt motion and camera moves that hold together.
- Vidu Q2 Image-to-Video via dLazy — dlazyai, beta: Animate images into 2–10 s clips with Vidu Q2, by reference images or first/last frame, through the dLazy CLI.