seedance-camera
Before producing prompt text, a prompt-ready block, a rewrite, an example, or a compiled clip, load the Director's Read, classify the brief, and complete its canonical narrative or non-narrative record. Translate that record into visible or audible carriers and keep its internal labels out of final generation prose.
Use one clear camera idea per short clip unless the user asks for a multi-shot sequence. The best camera direction has a start frame, movement, speed, subject relationship, and endpoint. Avoid stacking moves that fight each other, such as drone rise, dolly-in, handheld shake, and orbit in the same five-second shot.
Load quick-ref for prompt assembly, cinematography-shot-language for professional shot contracts, directing-engine to derive the move from the scene's one intention so it reinforces light, performance, and sound instead of competing, and vocab/zh or vocab/ru when camera wording must be multilingual.
Intent
When a user asks about camera, they are really asking where the viewer's body stands and what the viewer is made to feel from there. Camera grammar is empathy mechanics: a push-in is leaning closer, a locked frame is holding your breath. Choose the move that puts the audience where the user's feeling lives.
Camera Contract
State: shot scale, angle, movement, speed, subject relationship, and endpoint. A prompt-ready camera phrase should be physically possible and tied to the subject's action.
| Need | Strong phrase | Avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Emotional realization | slow dolly-in from medium close-up to tight close-up as Character A lowers the envelope | dramatic cinematic zoom |
| Product reveal | controlled slider move from silhouette to front three-quarter hero angle, ending on the label | dynamic product camera |
| Scale | low-angle crane up from boots to skyline, ending behind the character's shoulder | epic wide moving shot |
| Instability | subtle handheld shoulder camera, small breathing sway, subject kept centered | shaky chaotic camera everywhere |
| Precision detail | locked macro shot, focus stays on the watch gears while the second hand clicks once | cool close-up details |
Lens and Framing Anchors
Use lens anchors only when they improve direction: 24mm wide lens for spatial energy, 35mm natural street perspective, 50mm portrait compression, 85mm shallow close-up, or macro lens for material detail. Pair lens words with subject distance and motion; do not stack lens numbers as decoration.
Move Selection
Use locked-off shots for lip-sync, product identity, and delicate VFX. Use dolly-in for discovery or realization. Use tracking for travel, pursuit, and product motion. Use orbit only when the subject can remain clear from all sides. Use crane or drone for scale, arrival, or reveal. Use handheld only when realism matters more than precision.
Continuity Rules
For multi-character scenes, anchor the camera to named tags: camera holds Character A in foreground while Character B crosses behind. For I2V, preserve the image composition unless the user explicitly wants a reframing. For reference video, state whether @Video1 transfers camera movement, action rhythm, or blocking; do not let it transfer identity unless authorized.
For complex camera movement, a video reference often works better than a long verbal stack. Use @Video1 controls camera rhythm only; do not transfer performer, room, logo, or identity.
Conflict Rule
If the user gives several incompatible moves, choose one primary camera move and put the rest into optional variants. If the shot needs multiple beats, recommend splitting into separate clips or a time-segmented prompt.
Sequence State
When sequence state is present, inherit the observed camera phase, screen direction, current clip scope, continuity locks, exact reference tags, and reserved future beats before choosing a move. A continuation camera phrase must begin from the accepted source frame or observed end state; do not restart a pan, focus pull, or tracking move unless an intentional next shot declares the reset.
Output Contract
Return the selected camera phrase, why it fits the shot, conflicts removed, fragile anchors, endpoint, and a prompt-ready integrated sentence.
