# Push past

Camera / Camera move / Physical moves. Checked 2026-10-13.

Moves through a foreground object into the scene, as if the viewer steps inside.

- Use when: Entering a shop through the door frame, past a plant to the person behind it.
- Phrase: push past: the camera glides forward past the edge of the doorframe, the frame passes close to the lens and the room beyond opens up
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/push-past
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/push-past.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:** glides forward past something close to the lens
- **Pace:** smooth
- **Keep:** the near object sliding past the edge while the space behind opens
- **Ends:** inside or beyond what it passed

## Reference: Push past / pass-by shot

> push past. Movement: move forward past a visible foreground object, edge or opening. Speed: smooth forward glide. Framing: let the foreground pass close to the lens while the space beyond becomes clearer. End: arrive inside or beyond the foreground layer.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/13-push-past-pass-by-shot-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/13-push-past-pass-by-shot-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/13-push-past-pass-by-shot-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: Push past: the camera glides forward past the edge of the doorframe, the frame passes close to the lens and the room beyond opens up. Camera: glides forward past something close to the lens. Pace: smooth. Keep: the near object sliding past the edge while the space behind opens. Ends: inside or beyond what it passed.
Reference clip (Push past / pass-by shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/13-push-past-pass-by-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Push past: the camera glides forward past the edge of the doorframe, the frame passes close to the lens and the room beyond opens up. Camera: glides forward past something close to the lens. Pace: smooth. Keep: the near object sliding past the edge while the space behind opens. Ends: inside or beyond what it passed.
Reference clip (Push past / pass-by shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/13-push-past-pass-by-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Push past: the camera glides forward past the edge of the doorframe, the frame passes close to the lens and the room beyond opens up. Camera: glides forward past something close to the lens. Pace: smooth. Keep: the near object sliding past the edge while the space behind opens. Ends: inside or beyond what it passed.
Reference clip (Push past / pass-by shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/13-push-past-pass-by-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Push past: the camera glides forward past the edge of the doorframe, the frame passes close to the lens and the room beyond opens up. Camera: glides forward past something close to the lens. Pace: smooth. Keep: the near object sliding past the edge while the space behind opens. Ends: inside or beyond what it passed. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Push past / pass-by shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/13-push-past-pass-by-shot-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Dolly in (push in): https://directorchair.ai/move/dolly-in
- Pass through: https://directorchair.ai/move/pass-through

## 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.