Browse AI Video Generation SECTION 4: Motion, Action & Physics

The Motion Description Prompt

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The Motion Description Prompt

Describe the motion in this shot so it generates cleanly.

What should move: [DESCRIBE]
How it should move: [DESCRIBE IN PLAIN LANGUAGE]
Speed: [DESCRIBE]
Duration: [SECONDS]

Produce:
1. The motion described in verbs, with speed and direction
2. What is moving and what is still — stated explicitly
3. The motion's arc: does it start, continue, stop, or loop?
4. Whether it completes within the clip or continues past the end
5. Secondary motion, if any — and whether it should be included at
   all
6. The prompt text

Rules:
- One primary motion. Name it clearly.
- State what is static as well as what moves. "Everything else in
  frame is still" prevents a great deal of unwanted drift.
- Speed relative to something: "slow" is not direction, "at
  walking pace" is
- Motion that starts and stops within a short clip rarely reads —
  prefer continuous motion at a steady speed

Then: what this motion will most likely look wrong doing, and the
simpler version that avoids it.

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