Animate a camera move with Claude

A product film often shows one detail after another: the sidebar, a chart, a button. Hard cuts between close-ups make that feel jumpy. MotionUI’s camera path moves one continuous camera across the whole scene instead, and Claude sets it up from a short description.

How it works

Your scene sits as a precomp inside a master comp. The camera path moves and scales that precomp through a list of shots. Each shot has a time, a point to focus on and a zoom level, where 100% shows the whole scene.

Moves use expo easing and take about 1 second unless you ask for another length. Zooms change size at an even pace, the new focus glides to the center, and the camera drifts in slightly while it holds on a shot.

Ask Claude for a camera move

Open your scene in After Effects and describe the tour. Try: “Put the dashboard comp into a new 1920 × 1080 master comp. Start on the whole screen, move to the revenue chart at 2 seconds, then to the export button at 4.5 seconds. Calm moves of about 2 seconds.”

Claude adds the shots, renders a few frames to check the framing and tells you what it did.

Make it look good

• About 1 second feels snappy, 2 seconds feels calm. Product films usually work better with about 2 seconds.

• Let each element appear while the camera arrives at it, not before.

• Leave a shot right after its animation finishes, not while text is still typing.

• Turn off motion blur on text that does not move by itself, or it smears during camera moves.

Change it by hand

The camera is a set of anchor point and scale keyframes on the precomp layer. Drag a keyframe to change the timing, or select keys and adjust their curve in the Easing tab of the MotionUI panel.

Camera paths are part of the AI tools and need MotionUI Pro.