# Pan (left or right) Camera / Camera move / Pan and tilt. Checked 2026-10-13. Scans a space or follows something across it, like turning your head. - Use when: Revealing a room, following a person who walks past, showing a row of products. - Phrase: slow pan to the right, the camera turns on its tripod and stays in one place, new space comes in from the right edge - Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/pan - JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/pan.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) - A slow pan gives a landscape time to render detail; a fast one smears it. (unverified; A 2026 model-syntax study for a prompt builder, summarised in Director Chair field notes on video prompting, not measured by us) ## Move card - **Camera:** turns sideways on the spot, left or right - **Pace:** even and unhurried - **Keep:** a level horizon while new space slides in from the side you turn toward - **Ends:** a settled frame on what the turn was looking for ## Reference: Pan right > pan right. Movement: rotate the camera horizontally from left to right from one fixed point. Speed: smooth constant rotation. Framing: keep the horizon level while new space enters from the right side of the frame. End: settle on a clear final composition. Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/02-pan-right-hq.mp4 Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/02-pan-right-hq.mp4 Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/02-pan-right-hq.jpg ## Reference: Pan left > pan left. Movement: rotate the camera horizontally from right to left from one fixed point. Speed: smooth constant rotation. Framing: keep the horizon level while new space enters from the left side of the frame. End: settle on a clear final composition. Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/2b-pan-left-hq.mp4 Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/2b-pan-left-hq.mp4 Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/2b-pan-left-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: Slow pan to the right, the camera turns on its tripod and stays in one place, new space comes in from the right edge. Camera: turns sideways on the spot, left or right. Pace: even and unhurried. Keep: a level horizon while new space slides in from the side you turn toward. Ends: a settled frame on what the turn was looking for. Reference clip (Pan right): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/02-pan-right-hq.mp4 ``` ### Seedance 2.0 ``` Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1: one continuous shot Optics and camera: Slow pan to the right, the camera turns on its tripod and stays in one place, new space comes in from the right edge. Camera: turns sideways on the spot, left or right. Pace: even and unhurried. Keep: a level horizon while new space slides in from the side you turn toward. Ends: a settled frame on what the turn was looking for. Reference clip (Pan right): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/02-pan-right-hq.mp4 ``` ### Kling 3.0 ``` [your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Slow pan to the right, the camera turns on its tripod and stays in one place, new space comes in from the right edge. Camera: turns sideways on the spot, left or right. Pace: even and unhurried. Keep: a level horizon while new space slides in from the side you turn toward. Ends: a settled frame on what the turn was looking for. Reference clip (Pan right): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/02-pan-right-hq.mp4 ``` ### Veo 3.1 ``` Slow pan to the right, the camera turns on its tripod and stays in one place, new space comes in from the right edge. Camera: turns sideways on the spot, left or right. Pace: even and unhurried. Keep: a level horizon while new space slides in from the side you turn toward. Ends: a settled frame on what the turn was looking for. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Reference clip (Pan right): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/02-pan-right-hq.mp4 ``` ## Look further - https://aicameramovements.com/ : a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only) - https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate - https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this camera move (paid, link only) - https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this camera move (free tier, link only) ## Goes well with - Whip pan: https://directorchair.ai/move/whip-pan - Truck (left or right): https://directorchair.ai/move/truck - Tilt up: https://directorchair.ai/move/tilt-up ## 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). 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