{
 "slug": "canvas-move",
 "name": "Camera move on one canvas",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Motion graphics",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The viewer keeps the map of the whole while looking at one part.",
 "use_when": "Step lists, tool tutorials, process explainers.",
 "phrase": "one large board holds every step; a virtual camera pans and zooms to the step being named and holds there until the next one",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Never a new slide per step. Both measured references keep one canvas for the whole video: the board moved 4.7 times per 10 seconds under a continuous speaker, and 2.86 times when every stop held a card that needed a second to read.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, 22 Oct 2026 and Director Chair measurement of a published short, 23 Oct 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "The move lands on the step at the moment it is named; a card reached after its name is the listed failure.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "The camera direction never reverses; move fast first, then slow for longer. First drafts are nearly always too quick.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Motion graphics with Claude (Rourke Heath) (the camera rules of his free skill)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "map-in-frame-zero",
  "edit-red-board-list",
  "edit-canvas-tour",
  "loop-close"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "measured",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from our measurements of published shorts"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/canvas-move",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/canvas-move.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: one large board holds every step; a virtual camera pans and zooms to the step being named and holds there until the next one",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: one large board holds every step; a virtual camera pans and zooms to the step being named and holds there until the next one",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. One large board holds every step; a virtual camera pans and zooms to the step being named and holds there until the next one.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. One large board holds every step; a virtual camera pans and zooms to the step being named and holds there until the next one. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}