# Camera move on one canvas

Edit / Transition / Motion graphics. Checked 2026-11-13.

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
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/transition/canvas-move
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/transition/canvas-move.json

## Watch out

- 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. (measured; Director Chair measurement of a published short, 22 Oct 2026 and Director Chair measurement of a published short, 23 Oct 2026)
- The move lands on the step at the moment it is named; a card reached after its name is the listed failure. (practitioner; Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026)
- The camera direction never reverses; move fast first, then slow for longer. First drafts are nearly always too quick. (practitioner; Director Chair notes on Motion graphics with Claude (Rourke Heath) (the camera rules of his free skill))

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 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].
Shot 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 3.0

```
[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.
```

## Goes well with

- The whole list as a map in frame 0: https://directorchair.ai/hook/map-in-frame-zero
- Red board list: https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-red-board-list
- Canvas tour with a corner presenter: https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-canvas-tour
- Loop back to frame one: https://directorchair.ai/transition/loop-close

## Source

Own words from our measurements of published shorts

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