# Earth zoom out

Camera / Camera move / Specials. Checked 2026-10-13.

From one street to the whole planet: scale, reach, a global message.

- Use when: Brands with a worldwide footprint, endings, campaign claims about scale.
- Phrase: zoom out from the shop on the corner, up through the city and the country until the earth fills the frame, the shop always in the centre
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/earth-zoom-out
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/earth-zoom-out.json

## Watch out

- Give one main camera move per shot. Two moves at once, or orders that contradict each other, make the camera wander. (vendor; Kling camera guide and ByteDance Dreamina Seedance guide, via Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Move card

- **Camera:** rises from street level to space
- **Pace:** accelerating
- **Keep:** the starting point always in the centre
- **Ends:** the whole planet, the start point implied

## Reference: Earth zoom out

> earth zoom out. Movement: pull upward from the starting point through street, city, landscape and planet scale. Speed: rapid expanding zoom out. Framing: keep the original location centered as scale grows. End: finish on a planet-scale view with the starting point still implied at center.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.jpg

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Zoom out from the shop on the corner, up through the city and the country until the earth fills the frame, the shop always in the centre. Camera: rises from street level to space. Pace: accelerating. Keep: the starting point always in the centre. Ends: the whole planet, the start point implied.
Reference clip (Earth zoom out): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.mp4
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Zoom out from the shop on the corner, up through the city and the country until the earth fills the frame, the shop always in the centre. Camera: rises from street level to space. Pace: accelerating. Keep: the starting point always in the centre. Ends: the whole planet, the start point implied.
Reference clip (Earth zoom out): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.mp4
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Zoom out from the shop on the corner, up through the city and the country until the earth fills the frame, the shop always in the centre. Camera: rises from street level to space. Pace: accelerating. Keep: the starting point always in the centre. Ends: the whole planet, the start point implied.
Reference clip (Earth zoom out): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.mp4
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Zoom out from the shop on the corner, up through the city and the country until the earth fills the frame, the shop always in the centre. Camera: rises from street level to space. Pace: accelerating. Keep: the starting point always in the centre. Ends: the whole planet, the start point implied. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Earth zoom out): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

- https://aicameramovements.com/ : a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)

## Goes well with

- Infinite zoom: https://directorchair.ai/move/infinite-zoom
- Drone pull back: https://directorchair.ai/move/drone-pull-back

## Source

Move names and the seven groups from aicameramovements.com (names and structure only); behaviour and numbers in our own words from Director Chair field notes on video prompting and the first Director Chair spec

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.